Software process improvement as organizational knowledge creation: A multiple case analysis

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Arent, Jesper ^a   Norbjerg, Jacob ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

BUDGET CONSTRAINT; CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; LEARNING PROCESS; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS; TACIT AND EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 85094161264     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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