Distributed software development projects: Work breakdown approaches to overcome key coordination challenges

ISEC'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 India Software Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 173-182

  Mohan, Sanjay ^a   Fernandez, Jude ^a  

^a INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Coordination challenges; Distributed development; Flow dependency; Global software engineering; Project risk; Work breakdown

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED; COLLABORATION EFFORTS; COLLABORATION TOOL; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PROJECT RISK; RESEARCH CENTER; RESEARCH STUDIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TEAM MEMBERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

RISKS;

EID: 77951468235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1730874.1730906     Document Type: Conference Paper

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