Fostering cross-site coordination through awareness: An investigation of state-of-the-practice through a focus group study

Proceedings - 38th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 337-344

  Smite, Darja ^a   Dingsøyr, Torgeir ^b  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Awareness; Coordination; Focus groups; Global Software Development; Global Software Teams; Knowledge Management

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; COORDINATION; FOCUS GROUPS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869781110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEAA.2012.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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