Design team perception of development team composition: Implications for Conway's law

Proceedings - 2011 2nd International Workshop on Replication in Empirical Software Engineering Research, RESER 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 52-60

  Burton, Scott H ^a   Bodily, Paul M ^a   Morris, Richard G ^a   Knutson, Charles D ^a   Krein, Jonathan L ^a  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

Conway's law; Empirical replication; Psychology of programming

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; CONWAY'S LAW; DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; EMPIRICAL REPLICATION; ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGY OF PROGRAMMING; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 84858067497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RESER.2011.7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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