The rise and fall of the Chaos report figures

IEEE Software

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-36

  Eveleens, Johan Laurenz ^a   Verhoef, Chris ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chaos report; Forecasting; Project success; Software; Software engineering; Standish group

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY MEASURES; APPLICATION SOFTWARES; AVERAGE NUMBERS; ESTIMATION PROCESS; PROJECT SUCCESS; REAL WORLD PROJECTS;

CHAOS THEORY; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 75149165233     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2009.154     Document Type: Article

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