A risk-driven model for work allocation in global software development projects

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 15-24

  Lamersdorf, Ansgar ^a   Münch, Jürgen ^b   Torre, Alicia Fernández Del Viso ^c   Sánchez, Carlos Rebate ^c  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Indra Software Labs ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Global Software Development; Project Planning; Risk Management; Task Allocation

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMIZABLE; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; IT COMPANIES; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PROJECT PLANNING; PROJECT RISK; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; TASK ALLOCATION; TASK DISTRIBUTION; WORK DISTRIBUTION;

RISK MANAGEMENT; RISKS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 81255143855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2011.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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