Successful software project and products: An empirical investigation

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 144-153

  Berntsson Svensson, Richard ^a   Aurum, Aybüke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Product success; Success factors; Successful project

Indexed keywords

REALISTIC REQUIREMENTS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

DATA ACQUISITION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34247337693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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