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Computing environments for flexible teams

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Flexible teams are a new type of organizational entity that will become even more prevalent in the future. We define the concept of a flexible team, present selected attributes of such teams (composite membership and roles, diverse disciplines and skills, rapid communication alignment, and rapid process alignment), address the impact of these attributes on different categories of tools, and discuss implications for the design of computing environments to support flexible teams.

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    Danielle Fafchamps & Pankaj Garg

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Fafchamps, D., Garg, P. (1995). Computing environments for flexible teams. In: Taylor, R.N., Coutaz, J. (eds) Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction. SE-HCI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035814

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