The impact of global software cultural and linguistic aspects on Global Software Development process (GSD): Issues and challenges

NISS2010 - 4th International Conference on New Trends in Information Science and Service Science

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 133-138

  Abufardeh, Sameer ^a   Magel, Kenneth ^a  

^a North Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL MODELS; DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; LITTLE RESEARCH; MULTI-SITE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS;

LINGUISTICS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77957806530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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