Adept: A unified assessment method for small software companies

IEEE Software

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-31

  McCaffery, Fergal ^a   Taylor, Philip S ^b   Coleman, Gerry ^a  

^a DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D.2.18 software engineering process; D.2.18.c process measurement; D.2.18.e software process models

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE PROCESS ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELS; UNIFIED ASSESSMENT METHOD;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33846899261     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2007.3     Document Type: Article

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