In this study of eight outsourcing projects, we seek to understand the mechanisms that companies put in place to coordinate knowledge work across their boundaries. We find that m...
As a software system evolves, its architecture will drift. System changes are often done without considering their effects on the system structure. These changes often introduce s...
John B. Tran, Michael W. Godfrey, Eric H. S. Lee, ...
With today's ever increasing demands on software, developers must produce software that can be changed without the risk of degrading the software architecture. Degraded softw...
Service-based systems have many applications, including collaborative research and development, ebusiness, health care, environmental control, military applications, and homeland ...
Stephen S. Yau, Dazhi Huang, Haishan Gong, Hasan D...
As open source development has evolved, differentiation of roles and increased sophistication of collaborative processes has occurred. Recently, we described coordination issues i...
Jason B. Ellis, Shahtab Wahid, Catalina Danis, Wen...