Commitment development in software process improvement: Critical misconceptions

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2001-May, Issue , 2001, Pages 71-80

  Abrahamsson, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Commitment; Commitmentmodels; Forms of commitment; Misconceptions; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

PROCESS ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

AFFECTIVE COMMITMENTS; COMMITMENT; COMMITMENTMODEL; CONTINUANCE COMMITMENTS; FORM OF COMMITMENT; MISCONCEPTION; MOST LIKELY; NORMATIVE COMMITMENTS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN COGNITIVE PROCESSES; MISCONCEPTIONS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035020259     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2001.919082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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