An experience in combining flexibility and control in a small company's software product development process

Proceedings - 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 28-37

  Rautiainen, K ^a   Vuornos, L ^b   Lassenius, C ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Smartner Information Systems Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

Capability maturity model; Companies; Information systems; Portfolios; Process planning; Product development; Project management; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; PROCESS PLANNING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CAPABILITY MATURITY MODELS; LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY; PORTFOLIOS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT COMPANIES; SOFTWARE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70349812309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2003.1237962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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