Excellent adaptations: Managing projects through changing technologies, teams, and clients

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Holdaway, Jill ^c   Rauch, Marta ^a   Flink, Lynn ^b  

^a ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Flink Inc

^c NONE

Author keywords

Collaboration; information developer teams; Organizational processes; Project management

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; COLLABORATION; COST-EFFICIENT; CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS; DIFFERENT PROCESS; DOCUMENT DELIVERY; EXTERNAL CUSTOMERS; INFORMATION DEVELOPER TEAMS; MANAGING PROJECTS; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES; PROCESS MATURITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

INFORMATION SERVICES; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70449449540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2009.5208710     Document Type: Conference Paper

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