Identifying high performance ERP projects

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 398-416

  Stensrud, Erik ^a   Myrtveit, Ingunn ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Best practice identification; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Enterprise resource planning (ERP); Multivariate productivity measurements; Software development; Software metrics; Software process improvement; Software project management

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 0038043480     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1199070     Document Type: Article

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