A tool supporting root cause analysis for synchronous retrospectives in distributed software teams

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 408-437

  Lehtinen, Timo O A ^a   Virtanen, Risto ^a   Viljanen, Juha O ^a   Mäntylä, Mika V ^a   Lassenius, Casper ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

ARCA tool; Distributed retrospective; Global software engineering; Root cause analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894074202     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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