Agility in context

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 74-88

  Hoda, Rashina ^a   Kruchten, Philippe ^b   Noble, James ^a   Marshall, Stuart ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agile software development; Agility; Context

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; AGILITY; CONTEXT; DEVELOPMENT METHOD; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; GROUNDED THEORY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79551711258     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1932682.1869467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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