Identifying some critical changes required in adopting agile practices in traditional software development projects

International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 451-474

  Misra, Subhas Chandra ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^b   Kumar, Uma ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change management; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951433101     PISSN: 0265671X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02656711011035147     Document Type: Article

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