Contextual factors which influence creativity in requirements engineering

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Dallman, Shaun ^a   Nguyen, Lemai ^b   Lamp, John ^b   Cybulski, Jacob ^b  

^a Godfrey Hirst ^*  (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case Study; Creativity; Requirements Engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; COMPLEX PROJECTS; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; CREATIVITY; DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY; EFFECTIVE PLANNING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION; IN-BUILDINGS; IS DEVELOPMENT;

COMPETITION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871018269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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