The temporal communication behaviors of global software development student teams
Abstract: This paper examines the global software development process by using content analysis techniques, as described in an earlier study (), to determine time-variant patterns of communication behaviors among student teams engaged in a global software development project. Data gathered from two...
| Published in: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 384 - 393 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Mar2012
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