Agile project management - Agilism versus traditional approaches

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 10-17

  Fernandez, Daniel J ^a   Fernandez, John D ^b  

^a ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile strategies; Patterns of organization; Project management; Software project management; Traditional management approaches

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODOLOGIES; AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; AGILE STRATEGIES; HIERARCHICAL APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; TRADITIONAL MANAGEMENT;

MANAGERS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 60849102438     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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