SPI with lightweight software process modeling in a small software company

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4764 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 71-81

  Savolainen, Paula ^a   Sihvonen, Hanna Miina ^a   Ahonen, Jarmo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MARKETING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE COMPANY; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (SPI); SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELING;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 38349054928     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75381-0_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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