Social and technical reasons for software project failures

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Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4-9

  Jones, Capers ^a,b,c  

^a Software Productivity Research LLC

^b Capers Jones and Associates LLC

^c Software Productivity Research LLC (SPR)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

RISK ABATEMENT; RISK ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE DISASTERS; SOFTWARE PROJECT FAILURES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33745212048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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