Developer fluency: Achieving true mastery in software projects

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 137-146

  Zhou, Minghui ^a   Mockus, Audris ^b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

developer fluency; developer learning; productivity; task centrality; task difficulty

Indexed keywords

COMMON PROBLEMS; DEVELOPER FLUENCY; DEVELOPER LEARNING; LARGE PROJECT; MEASUREMENT INTERVAL; OFF-SHORING; PROJECT DELAYS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TASK CENTRALITY; TASK DIFFICULTY;

OUTSOURCING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 78751496215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882291.1882313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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