The role of 'culture' in successful software process improvement

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 170-176

  Sharp, Helen ^a   Woodman, Mark ^b   Hovenden, Fiona ^c   Robinson, Hugh ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL SETTINGS; DIFFERENT SIZES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE PRACTICES; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; VALUES AND BELIEFS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 3042849188     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EURMIC.1999.794778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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