Economies and diseconomies of scale in software development

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 533-548

  Comstock, Craig ^a   Jiang, Zhizhong ^b   Davies, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

scale economies; software economics; team size

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY; LARGE DATABASE; PARAMETRIC MODELS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; PRODUCTIVITY FACTORS; PROJECT SIZE; SCALE ECONOMIES; SOFTWARE ECONOMICS; TEAM SIZE;

ECONOMICS; PRODUCTIVITY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 81155135084     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.526     Document Type: Article

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