Motivations and measurements in an agile case study

Journal of Systems Architecture

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 654-667

  Layman, Lucas ^a   Williams, Laurie ^a   Cunningham, Lynn ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Clarke College   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile software development; Case study; Extreme programming; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

AGILE PRACTICES; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CASE STUDY; EXTREME PROGRAMMING;

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749642083     PISSN: 13837621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysarc.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

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