Going soft on quality?: Process management in the Scottish software industry

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 195-209

  Beirne, Martin ^a   Panteli, Androniki ^a   Ramsay, Harvie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human factors; Process management; Software sociology

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMMERCIAL PRESSURE; MEDIATING ROLES; PROCESS MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE COMPANY; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; WORK ORGANIZATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 0041293178     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018564019365     Document Type: Article

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