Anticipating success of a business-critical software project: A comparative case study of waterfall and agile approaches

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 51 LNBIP, Issue , 2010, Pages 187-192

  Ikonen, Marko ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Software engineering project; Success factor

Indexed keywords

PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; ANTICIPATION; DEVELOPMENT METHOD; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECTS; SUCCESS FACTORS; UNIVERSITY SETTINGS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84865616241     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13633-7_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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