Effective communication in distributed agile software development teams

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 77 LNBIP, Issue , 2011, Pages 102-116

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

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agile Methods; Communication; Distributed Software Development; Grounded Theory

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION;

AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE TEAMS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; GROUNDED THEORY; TEAM MEMBERS; TIME ZONES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79956330501     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20677-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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