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Inside a software design team: knowledge acquisition, sharing, and integration

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 36 , Issue 10 (October 1993) table of contents

Pages: 63 - 77

Year of Publication: 1993

ISSN:0001-0782

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Diane B. Walz	Univ. of Texas, San Antonio
Joyce J. Elam	Florida International Univ., Miami
Bill Curtis	Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.9 Management
Subjects: Programming teams

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Performance

Keywords:
case study, empirical studies of software development, requirements determination, software design teams, software management

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