Configuring designers? Using one agile project management methodology to achieve user participation

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 54-67

  Hope, Kristin Lofthus ^a   Amdahl, Eva ^b  

^a Uni Rokkan Centre   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN METHOD; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79952012988     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2010.00257.x     Document Type: Article

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