Team task skills as a facilitator for application and development skills

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 434-441

  Chan, Chien Lung ^a   Jiang, James J ^b,c   Klein, Gary ^d  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge in projects; Project management in IT; Project success; Skill requirements; Software development

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES; DEVELOPMENT METHODS; KNOWLEDGE IN PROJECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN IT; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; PROJECT SUCCESS; PROJECT TEAMING; SHORT TERM; SKILL REQUIREMENTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 49149122792     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2008.922633     Document Type: Article

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