A preliminary roadmap for empirical research on agile software development

Proceedings - Agile 2008 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 83-94

  Dingsøyr, Torgeir ^a   Dybå, Tore ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^a,b  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; RESEARCH AGENDA; RESEARCH RESULTS; ROAD MAPS;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 52949093528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Agile.2008.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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