FTSProc: A process to alleviate the challenges of projects that use the follow-the-sun strategy

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 56-64

  Hess, Estevão Ricardo ^a   Audy, Jorge Luis Nicolas ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Development Process; Follow the Sun; Global Software Development

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; DEVELOPMENT PHASE; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FOLLOW-THE-SUN; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION COST; PRODUCTIVITY GAIN; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; TIME ZONES;

COMPETITION; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870724389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2012.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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