Agile team perceptions of productivity factors

Proceedings - 2011 Agile Conference, Agile 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 57-66

  Melo, Claudia ^a   Cruzes, Daniela S ^b   Kon, Fabio ^a   Conradi, Reidar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agile methods; Empirical analysis; Productivity factors; Team productivity

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODS; AGILE PRACTICES; AGILE TEAMS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; POTENTIAL PRODUCTIVITY; PRODUCTIVITY FACTORS; TEAM COMPOSITION; TEAM MEMBERS;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 80053018190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AGILE.2011.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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