An investigation of barriers to the adoption of software process best practice models

ACIS 2007 Proceedings - 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 780-789

  O'Connor, Rory V ^a   Coleman, Gerry ^b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b Department of Computing   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Best practice models; CMMI; ISO 9000; Software process; Software process improvement; XP

Indexed keywords

CMMI; ISO-9000; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; XP;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84869113219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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