Modified agile practices for outsourced software projects

Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 3860-3868

  Batra, Dinesh ^a   Sin, Thant ^a   Tseng, Sheng Ying ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile practices; Cultural barrier; Geographical barrier; Outsourcing; Software development; Temporal barrier

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODS; AGILE PRACTICES; BREAK DOWN; COMMON MODE; CULTURAL BARRIER; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL BARRIER; OUTSOURCED PROJECTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TEMPORAL BARRIER;

OUTSOURCING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870374554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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