Communication and quality in distributed agile development: An empirical case study

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2010, Pages 322-328

  Green, R ^a   Mazzuchi, T ^b   Sarkani, S ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile software development (asd); Distributed software teams; Media richness theory; Software development

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNICATION METHOD; COMMUNICATION MODELS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DEVELOPMENT PHASIS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; MEDIA RICHNESS THEORY; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; QUALITY GOALS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE QUALITY; DEVELOPMENT TEAMS;

COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION THEORY; RISK PERCEPTION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMMUNICATION;

EID: 78651546580     PISSN: 2010376X     EISSN: 20103778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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