Situational method engineering: On the differentiation of "Context" and "Project Type"

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 244, Issue , 2007, Pages 33-48

  Bucher, Tobias ^a   Klesse, Mario ^a   Kurpjuweit, Stephan ^a   Winter, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FACTORS; META MODEL; METHOD ENGINEERING; SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 38049095185     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73947-2_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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