Collaboration in software engineering projects: A theory of coordination

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 553-568

  Herbsleb, James D ^a   Mockus, Audris ^b   Roberts, Jeffrey A ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Constraint satisfaction; Coordination; Geographically distributed software engineering

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; COMMERCIAL PROJECTS; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION; COORDINATION; DATA DEPENDENCIES; DEVELOPMENT TIME; DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING DECISIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECTS;

DEFECTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DEFECT DENSITY;

EID: 84870196811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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