Is management commitment a necessity after all in software process improvement?

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 246-253

  Abrahamsson, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IS MANAGEMENTS; PROJECT SUCCESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 22944481016     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EURMIC.2000.874425     Document Type: Conference Paper

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