Fixing the 'out of sight out of mind' problem: One year of mood-based microblogging in a distributed software team

IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 267-276

  Dullemond, Kevin ^a   Van Gameren, Ben ^a   Storey, Margaret Anne ^b   Van Deursen, Arie ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ORGANIZATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; MICROBLOGGING; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SOFTWARE TEAMS; TEAM COMPOSITION; TEAM MEMBERS;

EID: 84883662382     PISSN: 21601852     EISSN: 21601860     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2013.6624038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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