Measuring productivity of software projects: A data envelopment analysis approach

Decision Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-80

  Mahmood, M Adam ^a   Pettingell, Karen J ^a   Shaskevich, Alexander I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Information Systems Implementation; Systems Development Methodologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041050969     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1996.tb00843.x     Document Type: Article

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