Assessing team performance from a socio-technical congruence perspective

2012 International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 160-169

  Jiang, Li ^a   Carley, Kathleen M ^b   Eberlein, Armin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

social technical congruence; software engineering process; team performance

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; SOCIAL-TECHNICAL CONGRUENCE; SOCIOTECHNICAL; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STUDENT TEAMS; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

CURRICULA; TEACHING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84864327627     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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