An empirical study of the impact of team size on software development effort

Information Technology and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 253-262

  Pendharkar, Parag C ^a   Rodger, James A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CASE tools; Cost estimation; Programming teams; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148989647     PISSN: 1385951X     EISSN: 15737667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10799-006-0005-3     Document Type: Article

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