SHARED MENTAL MODELS, FAMILIARITY, AND COORDINATION: A MULTI-METHOD STUDY OF DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE TEAMS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 425-433

  Espinosa, J Alberto ^a   Kraut, Robert E ^b   Slaughter, Sandra A ^c   Lerch, Javier F ^c   Herbsleb, James D ^c   Mockus, Audris ^d  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Avaya Labs Research Basking   (United States)

Author keywords

coordination; distributed teams; familiarity; Shared mental models; software teams

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPETITION; COORDINATION REACTIONS; DISPERSIONS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

COORDINATION; DEVELOPMENT TIME; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; FAMILIARITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISPERSION; LARGE-SCALES; MULTI METHODS; SHARED MENTAL MODEL; SOFTWARE TEAMS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 85023866234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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