The slippery path to productivity improvement

IEEE Software

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 43-52

  Abdel Hamid, Tarek K ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a Naval Postgraduate School

^b Prentice Hall ^*

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d IEEE

^e ACM

^f System Dynamics Society

^g Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRY; PLANNING; PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030195714     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/52.526831     Document Type: Article

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