Risk analysis of global software development and proposed solutions

Automatika

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-98

  Yu, Liguo ^a   Mishra, Alok ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^b ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Agent; Evolution; Global Software Development; Global Software Process; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952931897     PISSN: 00051144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00051144.2010.11828358     Document Type: Article

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