E-government application development using the Six Sigma approach

Electronic Government

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-306

  Patel, Sandip C ^a   Zu, Xingxing ^a  

^a MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

e governance software; e government; e government application development; e government software quality; system development life cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650727003     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2009.024946     Document Type: Article

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