A case study of coordination in distributed agile software development

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 16, Issue , 2008, Pages 189-200

  Hole, Steinar ^a   Moe, Nils Brede ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agile development; Case study; Coordinating work; Direct supervision; Global software development; Mutual adjustment; Scrum; Standardization

Indexed keywords

MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STANDARDIZATION;

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; COORDINATING WORK; DIRECT SUPERVISION; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; MUTUAL ADJUSTMENT; SCRUM;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78149315602     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: 18650937     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85936-9_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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