Software process improvement: It's a journey, not a destination

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 93-96

  Hardgrave, Bill C ^a   Armstrong, Deborah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL (CMM); SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (SPI);

BUDGET CONTROL; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745206036     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 00010782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1096000.1096028     Document Type: Review

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