SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY USE IN SOUTH AFRICA

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1040-1052

  Huisman, Magda ^a   Iivari, Juhani ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

developing country; method; South Africa; Systems development methodology; use

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; LEGACY SYSTEMS; VISUAL LANGUAGES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE; METHOD; NEW APPLICATIONS; PROCESS-MODELS; REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES; USE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 29144484022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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