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Life cycle concept considered harmful
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The authors were among the participants at an invitational conference held in September of 1980 at the Georgia State Umiversity to study the topic "Systems Analysis and Design: A Plan for the 80's."(3)
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Metadata
- Authors
- McCracken, D. D., & Jackson, M. A.
- Venue
- ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
- Published
- 1982-04
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 29-32
- ISSN
- 0163-5948 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2128975907
- Cited by
- 161
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 43.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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