Software process improvement: A road to success

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4034 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 395-401

  Niazi, Mahmood ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COSTS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; QUALITY OF SERVICE; STANDARDS;

ACADEMIA; CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL (CMM); CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL INTEGRATION (CMMI); SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (SPI);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33746217401     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11767718_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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