The effects of information overload on software project risk assessment

Decision Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 489-526

  Pennington, Robin ^a   Tuttle, Brad ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

And software project risk; Computerized process tracing; Decision strategy; Information overload; Information processing; IT governance; Policy capturing; Risk judgments

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548210906     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2007.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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