'Bad practice' or 'Bad methods' are software engineering and ethnographic discourses incompatible?

ISESE 2002 - Proceedings, 2002 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 204-210

  Ronkko K ^a   Lindeberg, O ^a   Dittrich, Y ^a  

^a Blekinge Institute of Technology   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BAD METHODS; BAD PRACTICES; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEMS; SOFTWARE METHODS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 27644501418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2002.1166941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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