Overcoming challenges in global software development: The role of brokers

Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Manteli, Christina ^a   Van Den Hooff, Bart ^a   Van Vliet, Hans ^a   Van Duinkerken, Wilco ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Olery BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

brokers; clusters; Global Software development; social network analysis; transactive memory systems

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BROKERS; CLUSTERS; DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSACTIVE MEMORY; TRANSACTIVE MEMORY SYSTEMS; USE SOCIAL NETWORKS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84906739763     PISSN: 21511349     EISSN: 21511357     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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