A study of the impact of requirements volatility on software project performance

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 3-11

  Zowghi, D ^a   Nurmuliani, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Costs; Government; Information systems; Information technology; Programming; Scheduling; Software performance; Stability analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; GOVERNMENT; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; STABILITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84948960452     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2002.1182970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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