KNOWLEDGE PARTITIONING IN OUTSOURCED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: A FIELD STUDY

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 259-270

  Tiwana, Amrit ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTSOURCING; SALES; SOFTWARE TESTING;

BLACK BOX APPROACH; CUSTOMER NEED; DIVISION OF KNOWLEDGE; FIELD STUDIES; KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS; KNOWLEDGE PARTITIONING; OUTSOURCED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; REQUIREMENT-DRIVEN; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SYMMETRICS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 80052617526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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