Causal analysis of factors governing collaboration in global software development teams

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 128-132

  Mohapatra, Prateeti ^a   Björndal, Petra ^b   Smiley, Karen ^c  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (India)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c ABB INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal relationship; Coordination; Factor analysis; Global software development; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; COORDINATION; DIMENSIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTED PROJECTS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 78149320642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2010.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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