Cultural patterns in software process mishaps: Incidents in global projects

Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Human and Social Factors of Software Engineering, HSSE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  MacGregor, Eve ^b   Hsieh, Yvonne ^a   Kruchten, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cultural patterns; Culture; Global Software Development; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CULTURAL PATTERNS; GLOBAL PROJECTS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GROUNDED THEORY; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; SOFTWARE PROCESS; UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84978995100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083106.1083116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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