Evidence-based decision making in lean software project management

36th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE Companion 2014 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 93-102

  Fitzgerald, Brian ^a   Musiał, Mariusz ^b   Stol, Klaas Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Ericpol Bobrzynskiego 12   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agile; Case study; Empirical study; Erlang C model; Evidence based decision making; Kanban; Lean

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGILE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED; KANBAN; LEAN;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84903649683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2591062.2591190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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