The communication patterns of technical leaders: Impact on product development team performance

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 733-744

  Ehrlich, Kate ^a   Cataldo, Marcelo ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ConnReperio LLC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Centrality; Communication; Hierarchy; Social network analysis; Teams; Technical leadership

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CENTRALITY; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; HIERARCHY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; TEAMS; TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84898973582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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