Software developers' views of end-users and project success

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 113-116

  Procaccino, J Drew ^a   Verner, June M ^b  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; END-USERS; ONLINE SURVEYS; PROJECT MANAGERS; PROJECT SUCCESS; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSTS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 66149098814     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1506409.1506437     Document Type: Article

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