A practitioner's guide to light weight software process assessment and improvement planning

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 972-995

  Pettersson, F ^a   Ivarsson, M ^a   Gorschek, T ^b   Ohman P ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Requirements engineering; Software engineering; Software process assessment; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

PACKAGE IMPROVEMENTS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (SPI);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 42149152060     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.08.032     Document Type: Article

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