Configuring global software teams: A multi-company analysis of project productivity, quality, and profits

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 261-270

  Ramasubbu, Narayan ^a   Cataldo, Marcelo ^b   Balan, Rajesh Krishna ^a   Herbsleb, James D ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

empirical analysis; globally distributed software development; quality management; software engineering economics

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS; GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PROFIT MARGIN; PROJECT OUTCOMES; PROJECT PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT TEAM; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ECONOMICS; SOFTWARE FIRMS;

DELAY CIRCUITS; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFITABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79959893269     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985793.1985830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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