Method Engineering: Theory and Practice

Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)

Volumn P-84, Issue , 2006, Pages 13-23

  Henderson Sellers, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLING METHOD; BEST PRACTICES; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; META MODEL; METHOD ENGINEERING; METHOD FRAGMENTS; ORGANIZATION PROJECTS; SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

EID: 85134568552     PISSN: 16175468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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