Making SPI happen: The IDEAL distribution of effort

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Borjesson A ^a,b   Mathiassen, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

commitment; Software process improvement; the IDEAL model

Indexed keywords

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

COMMITMENT; DISTRIBUTION OF EFFORTS; ENGINEERING PRACTICES; IDEAL MODEL; IMPLEMENTATION SUCCESS; SOFTWARE ORGANISATIONS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84969555996     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2003.1174899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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