An exploratory study of process enactment as input to software process improvement

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 39-44

  Huo, Ming ^a   Zhang, He ^a   Jeffery, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Process mining; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FITNESS FOR PURPOSE; PROCESS ENACTMENT; PROCESS MINING; PROJECT MANAGERS; SMALL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; RECOVERY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84885581035     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1137702.1137711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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