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Distributed Information System Development: Review of Some Management Issues

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops (OTM 2009)

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Due to the proliferation of the Internet and globalization, distributed information system development is becoming popular. In this paper we have reviewed some significant management issues like process management, project management, requirements management and knowledge management issues which have received much attention in distributed development perspective. In this literature review we found that areas like quality and risk management issues could get only scant attention in distributed information system development.

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Mishra, D., Mishra, A. (2009). Distributed Information System Development: Review of Some Management Issues. In: Meersman, R., Herrero, P., Dillon, T. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops. OTM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5872. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05290-3_40

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