The economics of software development by pair programmers

Engineering Economist

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 283-319

  Erdogmus, Hakan ^a   Williams, Laurie ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; COSTS AND BENEFITS; ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; UNIVERSITY OF UTAH;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 3042564389     PISSN: 0013791X     EISSN: 15472701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00137910309408770     Document Type: Article

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