The role of domain knowledge and cross-functional communication in socio-technical coordination

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 442-451

  Damian, Daniela ^a   Helms, Remko ^b   Kwan, Irwin ^c   Marczak, Sabrina ^d   Koelewijn, Benjamin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Oregon State University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

cross functional communication; distributed development; domain knowledge; global software teams; socio technical coordination; Software coordination

Indexed keywords

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; GLOBAL SOFTWARE TEAMS; SOCIOTECHNICAL;

COMMUNICATION; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84886443980     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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