Problems encountered when implementing agile methods in a very small company

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 16, Issue , 2008, Pages 13-24

  O’Donnell, Michael J ^a   Richardson, Ita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agile methods; EXtreme Programming; Very small software development company

Indexed keywords

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

AGILE METHODS; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; IRELAND; SMALL COMPANIES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77955379686     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: 18650937     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85936-9_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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