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...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 10; pp. 41 - 47
Autores principales: RAMESH, BALASUBRAMANIAM, CAO, LAN, MOHAN, KANNAN, PENG XU
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2006
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          Professor, Department of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, Atlanta
          Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
          Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Information Systems, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, New York City
          Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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        Computer software development
        Business partnerships
        Computer software
        Business communication
        Communication in management
        Computer programming
        United States
        India
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