The agile professional culture: A source of agile quality

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 597-610

  Siakas, Kerstin V ^a   Siakas, Errikos ^a  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agile culture; Agile development; Effective Technical and Human Implementation of Computer Systems (ETHICS); Human factor; Soft issues; TQM

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGILE CULTURE; AGILE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (SPI);

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 37749018922     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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