Articulation work in small-scale offshore software development projects

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-24

  Boden, Alexander ^a   Nett, Bernhard ^b   Wulf, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

articulation work; coordination; CSCW; ethnography; nearshoring; offshoring; SME

Indexed keywords

ANSELM STRAUSS; CORE COMPETENCIES; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMAN COMPANIES; INSTANT MESSENGERS; OFF-SHORING; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

GROUPWARE; INDUSTRY; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77953568014     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370114.1370120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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