Improving agile software development by the application of method engineering practices

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, SE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 55-60

  Henderson Sellers, B ^a   Serour, M K ^a   Gonzalez Perez, C ^a   Qumer, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agility; Method engineering; Software methodologies; SPI

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INTERCHANGES; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; AGILITY; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDIES; METHOD ENGINEERING; METHOD ENGINEERINGS; NEW TOOLS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; SOFTWARE METHODOLOGIES; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SPI;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 56149088743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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