Practice-driven approach for creating project-specific software development methods

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 345-365

  Bajec, Marko ^a   Vavpotič, Damjan ^a   Krisper, Marjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Method engineering; Process engineering; Project specific method

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

METHOD ENGINEERING; PROCESS CONFIGURATION; PROJECT-SPECIFIC METHOD;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33846540742     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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