How Microsoft Builds Software

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 53-61

  Cusumano, Michael A ^a   Selby, Richard W ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYNCHRONIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BUILD SCRIPTS; PERIODIC STABILIZATIONS; PROJECT BUILD MASTER; SYNCH AND STABILIZE APPROACH;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031166085     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/255656.255698     Document Type: Article

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