Risk Management in Distributed IT Projects: Integrating Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Levels

International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1-18

  Prikladnicki, Rafael ^a   Evaristo, Roberto ^b   Audy, Jorge Luis Nicolas ^a   Yamaguti, Marcelo Hideki ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

globalization of IS; IS project management methods and tools; IS project risk management; IS project selection criteria; outsourcing of IS; software development methodologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001735595     PISSN: 15483673     EISSN: 15483681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jec.2006100101     Document Type: Article

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