Soft factors affecting the performance of software development teams

Team Performance Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 187-205

  Sudhakar, Goparaju Purna ^a   Farooq, Ayesha ^b   Patnaik, Sanghamitra ^c  

^a Department of Technology Management   (India)

^b ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

Computer hardware; Computer software; Environmental management; India; Organizational performance; Team performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959238967     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527591111143718     Document Type: Review

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