THE WHITEWATER PROCESS: SOFTWARE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN SMALL IT BUSINESSES.

The article discusses methods that small software development companies can use to ensure that they are able to respond to the needs of the market. Small businesses in the United States employ half of all workers, and 80% of information technology workers are in small companies. The authors examine...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 89 - 94
Main Authors: Harris, Michael, Aebischer, Kris, Klaus, Tim
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2007
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          Assistant Professor, School of Business, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
          College of Business Administration, University of South Florida
          Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, College of Business, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX
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