Software project economics: A roadmap

FoSE 2007: Future of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 304-315

  Shepperd, Martin ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost models; Effort prediction; Empirical software engineering; Software project management

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

COST MODELS; EFFORT PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34748831896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FOSE.2007.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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