A feasibility study of follow-the-sun software development for GSD projects

Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE

Volumn 2013-January, Issue January, 2013, Pages 196-199

  Kroll, Josiane ^a   Prikladnicki, Rafael ^a   Audy, Jorge L N ^a   Carmel, Erran ^b   Fernandez, Jude ^c  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Coordination across time zones; Follow the sun; Global software development; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PLANNING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ACROSS TIME; BEST PRACTICES; EXPERIENCE REPORT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TIME ZONES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84937683609     PISSN: 23259000     EISSN: 23259086     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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