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Managing global IT teams: considering cultural dynamics

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Fred Niederman,

Felix B. TanAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 54, Issue 4

Pages 24 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/1924421.1924431

Published: 01 April 2011 Publication History

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Successful global IT team managers combine general distributed team management skills enhanced with cultural sensitivity.

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Managing global IT teams: considering cultural dynamics
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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Communications of the ACM Volume 54, Issue 4

April 2011

139 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1924421

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