Instrument for measuring the key factors of success in software process improvement

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 357-390

  Dybå, Tore ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL;

SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (SPI);

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034482651     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009800404137     Document Type: Article

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