Socio-technical congruence sabotaged by a hidden onshore outsourcing relationship: Lessons learned from an empirical study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7343 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 190-202

  Šmite, Darja ^a,b   Galviņa, Zane ^b  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Conway's law; Distributed software development; onshore; outsourcing; sociotechnical congruence

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; CONGRUENCE PRINCIPLE; CONWAY'S LAW; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED WORK; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ONSHORE; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; OUTSOURCING PROJECTS; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROJECT LIFECYCLE; SOCIOTECHNICAL; SYSTEMS STRUCTURE; TASK ALLOCATION;

ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84862166559     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31063-8_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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