A decade of Conway's Law: A literature review from 2003-2012

Proceedings - 2013 3rd International Workshop on Replication in Empirical Software Engineering Research, RESER 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-14

  Bailey, Sabrina E ^a   Godbole, Sneha S ^a   Knutson, Charles D ^a   Krein, Jonathan L ^a  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

Conways Law; literature review; pilot study

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

CONWAYS LAW; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; LITERATURE REVIEWS; PILOT STUDIES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84892571203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RESER.2013.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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