A replicated survey of IT software project failures

IEEE Software

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 84-90

  El Emam, Khaled ^a   Koru, Günes A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Business; Chaos; Computers; Correlation; Productivity; Programming teams; Project control and modeling; Project management; Review and evaluation; Risk management; Schedule and organizational issues; Schedules; Software; Software engineering management

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; CHAOS; COMPUTERS; CORRELATION; PRODUCTIVITY; PROGRAMMING TEAMS; PROJECT CONTROL AND MODELING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REVIEW AND EVALUATION; RISK MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULE AND ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES; SCHEDULES; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT;

SURVEYS;

EID: 50549104970     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2008.107     Document Type: Article

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