The impact of methods and techniques on outcomes from agile software development projects

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 235, Issue , 2007, Pages 235-249

  Parsons, David ^a   Ryu, Hokyoung ^a   Lal, Ramesh ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agile method; Software development; Technique

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ADAPTIVITY; AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; TECHNIQUE; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 34547868136     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72804-9_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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