Global software development coordination strategies - A vendor perspective

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 91 LNBIP, Issue , 2011, Pages 153-174

  Deshpande, Sadhana ^a   Beecham, Sarah ^a   Richardson, Ita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Client; Coordination; Global Software Development (GSD); Human Resource Management; Project Management; Vendor

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; OUTSOURCING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CLIENT; COORDINATION STRATEGY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGERS; VENDOR;

PLANNING;

EID: 80054791212     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24815-3_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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