A process for managing risks in distributed teams

IEEE Software

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-29

  Persson, John Stouby ^a   Mathiassen, Lars ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cmmi; Distributed teams; Risk management

Indexed keywords

CMMI; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; GENERIC APPROACH; RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RISK ANALYSIS;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 75149170152     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2009.157     Document Type: Article

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