Coping with staffing delays in software project management: An experimental investigation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-91

  Sengupta, Kishore ^a   Abdel Hamid, Tarek K ^a   Bosley, Michael ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Delays; Dynamic decision making; Software project management; Staffing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DELAYS; DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STAFFING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032713186     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.736362     Document Type: Article

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