The increase of productivity over time-an industrial case study

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 915-927

  Tomaszewski, Piotr ^a   Lundberg, Lars ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Development environments; Improvement; Learning; Maturity; Productivity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMPROVEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS; INITIAL DEVELOPMENT STAGE; MATURITY;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33746223157     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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