Quantifying the effects of process improvement on effort

IEEE Software

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 65-70

  Clark, Bradford K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

PROCESS MATURITY; SOFTWARE CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034317410     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/52.895170     Document Type: Article

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