Impact of knowledge support on the performance of software process tailoring

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 277-314

  Xu, Peng ^a   Ramesh, Balasubramaniam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextualized knowledge; Generalized knowledge; Knowledge management; Software process; Software process tailoring

Indexed keywords

BUILDING SOFTWARES; COMPLEX PROCESSES; CONTEXTUALIZED KNOWLEDGE; GENERALIZED KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE SUPPORTS; PROCESS TAILORING; PROTOCOL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS TAILORING; SOFTWARE TAILORING; TASK COMPLEXITY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 66549098940     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222250308     Document Type: Article

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