Changing the corporate IT development model: Tapping the power of grassroots computing

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 743-762

  Cherbakov, Luba ^a   Bravery, Andrew ^b   Goodman, Brian D ^a   Pandya, Aroop ^a   Baggett, John ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b IBM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

IT DEVELOPMENT MODEL; PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMER;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 37549045981     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.464.0743     Document Type: Article

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