Pair dynamics in team collaboration.
From a recent field survey with a group of professional pair programmers, it was revealed that the programmers perceive a partner's personality, cognitive style and communication skills as the top three factors that lead to prudent pair programming. Based on this finding, the factors personality and...
| Published in: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 844 - 853 |
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Elsevier Science
July 2009
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