A software engineering lifecycle standard for very small enterprises

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 16, Issue , 2008, Pages 129-141

  Laporte, Claude Y ^a   Alexandre, Simon ^b   O’Connor, Rory V ^c  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b Centre d Excellence en Technologies de l Information et de la Communication   (Belgium)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

ISO; Lifecycles; Standards; Very small enterprises

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; ISO STANDARDS; LIFE CYCLE; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STANDARDS;

ENGINEERING PRACTICES; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; QUALITY PRODUCT; SMALL ENTERPRISE; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LIFE-CYCLE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING STANDARDS; WORKING GROUPS;

ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84991890461     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: 18650937     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85936-9_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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