Agile software development: Adaptive systems principles and rest practices

Information Systems Management

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 19-30

  Meso, Peter ^a   Jain, Radhika ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE PRACTICES; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; BUSINESS CHANGES; COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEMS PRINCIPLES; THREE DIMENSIONS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 33745670221     PISSN: 10580530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1201/1078.10580530/46108.23.3.20060601/93704.3     Document Type: Article

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