Success with improvement - Requires the Right Roles to be Enacted - In symbiosis

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 529-539

  Johansen, Jørn ^a,c   Pries Heje, Jan ^b  

^a DELTA ^*  (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c DELTA Danish Electronics Light & Acoustics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ability to improve; Process improvement; Roles; Success

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MANAGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

ABILITY TO IMPROVE; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SUCCESS WITH IMPROVEMENT;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 37749003829     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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