Bridging cultural differences: A grounded theory perspective

Proceedings of the 4th India Software Engineering Conference 2011, ISEC'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-10

  Dorairaj, Siva ^a   Noble, James ^a   Malik, Petra ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; Distributed Agile software development; Grounded theory

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL AWARENESS; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; DISTRIBUTED AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; GROUNDED THEORY; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; SOFTWARE COMPANY; WORK PRACTICES;

PLANNING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79953904573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953355.1953357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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