Identifying the causes of poor progress in software projects

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 184-195

  Rainer, Austen ^a   Hall, Tracy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES; DEADLINE EFFECT; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 14844321935     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2004.1357902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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