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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 40 , Issue 11 (November 1997) table of contents

Pages: 102 - 109

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:0001-0782

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Gezinus J. Hidding

Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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CITED BY 7

	Gezinus J. Hidding, Adoption of IS development methods across cultural boundaries, Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems, p.308-312, December 1998, Helsinki, Finland
	S. Sawyer , P. J. Guinan, Software development: processes and performance, IBM Systems Journal, v.37 n.4, p.552-569, October 1998
	Tom L. Roberts, Jr. , Michael L. Gibson , R. Kelly Rainer, Jr. , Kent T. Fields, Response to 'Comments on Factors that Impact the Implementation of a Systems Development Methodology', IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.27 n.3, p.282-286, March 2001
	Karlheinz Kautz , Jan Pries-Heje, Systems development education and methodology adoption, ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel, v.20 n.3, p.6-26, July 1999
	Luciano Rodrigues Guimarães , Plínio Roberto Souza Vilela, Comparing software development models using CDM, Proceedings of the 6th conference on Information technology education, October 20-22, 2005, Newark, NJ, USA
	Victor R. Basili , Forrest Shull , Filippo Lanubile, Building Knowledge through Families of Experiments, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.25 n.4, p.456-473, July 1999
	Lars Mathiassen , Lasse Vogelsang, Managing knowledge in software method adoption, International Journal of Business Information Systems, v.1 n.1/2, p.102-117, July 2005

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
K.6.1 Project and People Management
Subjects: Systems development

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

General Terms:
Management, Standardization

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In this fascinating paper, Hidding explores a phenomenon in the analysis of software processes that I have not seen discussed before: the impact of software engineering methodologies on an organization. Hidding discusses a common scenario, in more...

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