Communication patterns in geographically distributed software development and engineers' contributions to the development effort

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 25-28

  Cataldo, Marcelo ^a   Herbsleb, James D ^b  

^a ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration tools; coordination; geographically distributed product development; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION TOOL; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; DISTRIBUTED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; PATTERNS OF COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING; ENGINEERS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77953566594     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370114.1370121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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