Exploring collaboration patterns among global software development teams

Proceedings - 2009 4th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-70

  Serce, Fatma Cemile ^a   Brazile, Robert ^b   Schumacker, Randy ^c   Alpaslan, Ferda Nur ^d   Dafoulas, George ^e   Swigger, Kathleen ^b   Lopez, Victor ^f  

^a ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^d MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PANAMÁ   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION PATTERNS; COLLABORATIVE TEAMS; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMING; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS; NEW STRATEGY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; STUDENT TEAMS; TASK TYPE; UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STRATEGIC PLANNING; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 71049177481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2009.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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