The awareness network, to whom should I display my actions? and, whose actions should I monitor?

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 325-340

  De Souza, Cleidson R B ^a   Redmiles, David F ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer supported cooperative work; Organizational management and coordination; Programming environments; Programming teams; Tools

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE WORKS; NATURE OF SOFTWARE; ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION; ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; PROGRAMMING TEAMS; SOCIAL ACTORS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; WORK PRACTICES;

DISPLAY DEVICES; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; GROUPWARE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79957853594     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2011.19     Document Type: Article

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