Product Release Planning: Methods, Tools and Applications

Product Release Planning: Methods, Tools and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-323

  Ruhe, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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