Migrating defect management from waterfall to agile software development in a large-scale multi-site organization: A case study

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 31 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 73-82

  Korhonen, Kirsi ^a  

^a NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

Author keywords

agile adoption; Defect management; distributed development

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGILE ADOPTION; AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DEFECT MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; MIGRATION PLANNING; MULTI-SITE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 66749123492     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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