Scrum down: A software engineer and a sociologist explore the implementation of an agile method

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 13-16

  Bates, Christopher D ^a   Yates, Simeon ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discourse; ethnography; ethnomethodology; phenomenology; scrum; sociology

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODS; COMPUTING RESEARCH; DIGITAL MEDIA; ETHNOMETHODOLOGY; SHEFFIELD; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENGINEERING; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77953603176     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370114.1370118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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