Project agility assessment: An integrated decision analysis approach

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 567-576

  Mafakheri, Fereshteh ^a,b   Nasiri, Fuzhan ^b   Mousavi, Mahmood ^c  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b GERAD   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agile project management; Change management; Decision making; Fuzzy set theory; Integrated assessment

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SET THEORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ASSESSMENT APPROACHES; CASE STUDIES; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS; DECISION AIDS; FUZZY SET THEORIES; FUZZY SET THEORY; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; INTEGRATED DECISIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 57349163213     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280802360884     Document Type: Article

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