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Splitting the organization and integrating the code: Conway's law revisited

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Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering table of contents

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pages: 85 - 95

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-074-0

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James D. Herbsleb	Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 263 Shuman Blvd, Naperville, Illinois
Rebecca E. Grinter	Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 263 Shuman Blvd, Naperville, Illinois

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IEEE-CS\TCSE : TC on Software Engineering
SIGADA: ACM Special Interest Group on Ada Programming Language
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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