Successful development strategies for business application systems

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 47-64

  McKeen, James D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Application system development; Development life cycle; Implementation; User satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346903779     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249056     Document Type: Article

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