Managing risk in software development projects: A case study

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 284-303

  Dey, Prasanta Kumar ^a   Kinch, Jason ^b   Ogunlana, Stephen O ^c  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b First Caribbean Bank   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^c ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Risk management; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDIES; INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS; MANPOWER AVAILABILITY;

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33947110929     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570710723859     Document Type: Article

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