Lessons Learned from Modeling the Dynamics of Software Development

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1989, Pages 1426-1438

  Abdel Hamid, Tarek K ^a   Madnick, Stuart E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

90 percent syndrome; Brooks' Law; software project teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976842520     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/76380.76383     Document Type: Article

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