How do distribution and time zones affect software development? A case study on communication

Proceedings - 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 176-184

  Nordio, Martin ^a   Estler, H Christian ^a   Meyer, Bertrand ^a   Tschannen, Julian ^a   Ghezzi, Carlo ^b   Di Nitto, Elisabetta ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication; Distributed software development; Empirical study; Time zones

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PROJECTS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED PROJECTS; LOCAL DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME ZONES; UNIVERSITY COURSE;

COMMUNICATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 81255143768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2011.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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