Software project managers and project success: An exploratory study

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1541-1551

  Procaccino, J Drew ^a   Verner, June M ^b  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Information and Communications Technology Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Practitioner; Project management; Project manager; Software development; Success

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MANAGERS; MOTIVATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

PRACTITIONERS; PROJECT MANAGERS; USER REQUIREMENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33748369668     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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