Measuring the complexity of software projects

2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering, CSIE 2009

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 644-648

  Fitsilis, Panos ^a  

^a Project Management Department   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; MODELING COMPLEXITY; MODELING SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE-PROJECT COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 71049165205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSIE.2009.936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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