Building blocks for self-organizing software development teams: A framework model and empirical pilot study

ICSTE 2010 - 2010 2nd International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering, Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Karhatsu, Henri ^a   Ikonen, Marko ^a   Kettunen, Petri ^a   Fagerholm, Fabian ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agile software development; Self organization; Self organizing teams

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; BUILDING BLOCKES; EMPIRICAL LITERATURE; FRAMEWORK MODELS; PILOT STUDIES; SELF ORGANIZING; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; SOFTWARE FACTORIES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78650014389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSTE.2010.5608848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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