Complementing measurements and real options concepts to support interiteration decision-making in agile projects

EUROMICRO 2008 - Proceedings of the 34th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 457-464

  Racheva, Zornitza ^a   Daneva, Maya ^a   Buglione, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agile projects; Business value; Decision making process; Measurement; PSU; ROA

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE PAVEMENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGILE PROJECTS; BUSINESS VALUE; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; MEASUREMENT; PSU; ROA;

VALUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 60349099486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEAA.2008.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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