A holistic approach to developing a progress tracking system for distributed agile teams

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE/ACIS 11th International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 503-512

  Sultan, Alyahya ^a   Ivins, Wendy K ^a   Gray, W A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agile development; Co ordination; Geographically distributed project; Progress tracking

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTING; AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE TEAMS; CO-ORDINATION; GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED PROJECTS; HOLISTIC APPROACH; LOW QUALITIES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS; SOURCE CODE VERSIONING; TEAM MEMBERS; TECHNICAL FACTORS; TECHNOLOGY-BASED; TRACKING SYSTEM; UNIT TESTING;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TRACKING (POSITION); VIDEO CONFERENCING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 84864049079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIS.2012.7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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