Measuring and monitoring task couplings of developers and development sites in global software development

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 16 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 181-195

  Ye, Yunwen ^a,c   Nakakoji, Kumiyo ^a,b   Yamamoto, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a SRA KTL Tokyo   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of communication and coordination; Developer coupling; Global software development; Site coupling; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COSTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; MONITORING TASKS; SOFTWARE METRICS; TASK DEPENDENCIES;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84876269357     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01856-5_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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