Agile distributed software development: Enacting control through media and context

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 411-433

  Persson, John Stouby ^a   Mathiassen, Lars ^b   Aaen, Ivan ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile project management; Control theory; Distributed development

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE PRACTICES; AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; CONTROL CHALLENGES; CONTROL FRAMEWORK; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; FORMAL CONTROLS; INFORMAL CONTROLS; MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; MEDIATED INTERACTION; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS;

CONTROL THEORY; INDUSTRY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

EID: 84867747968     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2011.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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