Adopting a social network perspective in global software development

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 7th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 124-133

  Manteli, Christina ^a   Van Vliet, Hans ^a   Van Den Hooff, Bart ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU University   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

distributed teams; global software development; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; COLLABORATION MODELS; COLLABORATION PATTERNS; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; COORDINATION STRUCTURES; CORE PERIPHERIES; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; GLOBAL NETWORKS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870692248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2012.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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