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The relationship between software development team size and software development cost

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 1

Pages 141 - 144

https://doi.org/10.1145/1435417.1435449

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1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
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    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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