CAN DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BE AGILE?
The article presents a case study of three U.S.-based companies that develop computer software in cooperation with partners in India. The authors discuss the communications, management, and organizational methods used by the companies in the case study. According to the authors, agile software dev...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 10; pp. 41 - 47 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Oct2006
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