Requirements-driven collaboration: Leveraging the invisible relationships between requirements and people

Collaborative Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 57-76

  Damian, Daniela ^a   Kwan, Irwin ^a   Marczak, Sabrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Communication; Coordination; Requirements engineering; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886170876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10294-3_3     Document Type: Chapter

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