Does socio-technical congruence have an effect on software build success? A study of coordination in a software project

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 307-324

  Kwan, Irwin ^a   Schröter, Adrian ^a   Damian, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Awareness; Coordination; Empirical software engineering; Integration; Socio technical congruence; Software quality

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; COORDINATION; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOCIOTECHNICAL; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 79957849109     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2011.29     Document Type: Article

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