Departmentalization in Software Development and Maintenance

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 658-667

  Swanson, E Burton ^a   Beath, Cynthia Mathis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

development; maintenance; management; organizational forms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING--MAINTENANCE; MANAGEMENT--INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

LIFE CYCLE PHASE (L TYPE); SOFTWARE DEPARTMENTALIZATION; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0025436534     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/78973.78976     Document Type: Article

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