Project quality of off-shore virtual teams engaged in software requirements analysis: An exploratory comparative study

Journal of Global Information Management

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 24-45

  Nath, Dhruv ^a   Sridhar, Varadharajan ^a   Adya, Monica ^b   Malik, Amit ^c  

^a MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Management Development Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Collocated teams; Computer mediated communications; Off shoring, project management; Project control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COLLOCATED TEAMS; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; GLOBAL DELIVERY MODELS; MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT; OFF-SHORING; PROJECT CONTROL; REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 72949107190     PISSN: 10627375     EISSN: 15337995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jgim.2008100102     Document Type: Article

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