Improvisation in small software organizations

IEEE Software

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 82-87

  Dybå, Tore ^a  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

IMPROVISATION; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (SPI);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034270434     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/52.877872     Document Type: Article

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