Low degree of separation does not guarantee easy coordination

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 345-348

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coordination delay; Distributed development; Onshore outsourcing; Software development process

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION DELAY; COORDINATION PATTERNS; COORDINATION STRUCTURES; DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL COMPETITION; LOW DEGREE; ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEMS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE COMPANY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; TASK ALLOCATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COORDINATION REACTIONS;

EID: 84869814795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEAA.2012.79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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