Estimating software project effort for manufacturing firms

Computers in Industry

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 732-740

  Chou, Jui Sheng ^a   Wu, Cheng Chieh ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Data Systems Consulting Co Ltd   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data mining; Effort estimation; Empirical study; Enterprise resource planning; Project management; Software project

Indexed keywords

EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP); ESTIMATION APPROACHES; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; INFORMATION SYSTEM PROJECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; TRADITIONAL MANUFACTURING;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84878326658     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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