Is software work routinized? - Some empirical observations from Indian software industry

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Ilavarasan, P Vigneswara ^a   Sharma, Arun Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; JOB ANALYSIS;

JOB FRAGMENTATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0037845188     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(02)00050-X     Document Type: Article

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