A comparison of team performance measures for global software development student teams

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 267-274

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PANAMÁ   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHODS; DISTRIBUTED PROJECTS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; RESEARCH RESULTS; STUDENT GROUPS; STUDENT TEAMS; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

BENCHMARKING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 71049191522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2009.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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