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Product development is typically a team effort involving information-related activities and intense communication. As projects increase in size and as economies become globalized, enterprises become geographically dispersed (Carmel, 1999). Walking over to another team member’s desk first becomes difficult and then impossible. Chance encounters—known to play a very important role in product development (Harrison and Dourish, 1996; Huxor, 1998; Isaacs et al., 1996)—are restricted to meetings with collocated team members, and traditional face-to-face communication is replaced with various forms of telecommunication.
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Tomek, I. (2002). Support for Geographically Dispersed Software Teams. In: Erdogmus, H., Tanir, O. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21599-0_16
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