A process for driving process improvement in VSEs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5543 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 342-353

  Pino, Francisco J ^a,c   Alegría, Julio Ariel Hurtado ^a   Vidal, Juan Carlos ^b   García, Félix ^c   Piattini, Mario ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL CAUCA   (Colombia)

^b Faculty of Engineering   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Case studies; Improvement process; SPI; VSEs

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDIES; IMPROVEMENT PROCESS; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; PROCESS STEPS; SMALL ENTERPRISE; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SPI; SUCCESS FACTORS; VSES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERCHANGES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 67650293333     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01680-6_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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