Reconciling perspectives: A grounded theory of how people manage the process of software development

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1269-1286

  Adolph, Steve ^a   Kruchten, Philippe ^a   Hall, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agile manifesto agile software development; Grounded theory; Scrum; Shared mental model; Software engineering; Software team

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGILE MANIFESTO AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GROUNDED THEORY; SCRUM; SHARED MENTAL MODEL; SOFTWARE TEAMS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84859550248     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.01.059     Document Type: Article

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