Process fusion: An industrial case study on agile software product line engineering

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 843-854

  Hanssen, Geir K ^a,b   Fægri, Tor E ^a  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agile software development; Software product development; Software product line engineering; Software product management

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

OPERATIONAL PROCESSES; PRODUCT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 42049088680     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.10.025     Document Type: Article

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