Improving Speed and Productivity of Software Development: A Global Survey of Software Developers

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 875-885

  Blackburn, Joseph D ^a,b,c   Scudder, Gary D ^a,b,c   Van Wassenhove, Luk N ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

And the united states; Empirical research; Europe; Global performance comparisons; Japan; Management factors; Software development; Software engineering; Software speed and productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001313920     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.553636     Document Type: Article

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