Agile procurement and dynamic value for money to facilitate agile software projects

Proceedings - 32nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 248-255

  Jamieson, Diane ^a   Vinsen, Kevin ^b   Callender, Guy ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ADI Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

AGILE PRINCIPLES; CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS; DYNAMIC VALUE; INCOMPATIBILITY; PROJECT DELIVERY; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34547443076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUROMICRO.2006.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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