A rule-based model for customized risk identification in distributed software development projects

Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 209-218

  Lamersdorf, Ansgar ^a   Münch, Jürgen ^a   Torre, Alicia Fernández Del Viso ^b   Sánchez, Carlos Rebate ^b   Heinz, Markus ^a   Rombach, Dieter ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b Fraunhofer IESE ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Global software development; Risk management; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS; RISK IDENTIFICATION; RULE-BASED MODELS; TASK ALLOCATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78149318420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2010.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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