Negotiating common ground in Distributed Agile Development: A case study perspective

Proceedings - IEEE 8th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 80-89

  Modi, Sunila ^a   Abbott, Pamela ^a   Counsell, Steve ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3C Collaboration model; Awareness cues; Boundary objects; Common ground; Distributed Agile Development; Mutually shared understanding

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AWARENESS CUES; BOUNDARY OBJECTS; COLLABORATION MODELS; COMMON GROUND; SHARED UNDERSTANDING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84887453170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2013.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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