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Rapid Application Development: rough and dirty or value-for-money engineering?

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Communications of the ACM Volume 45 Issue 10October 2002pp 27–29https://doi.org/10.1145/570907.570925

Published:01 October 2002Publication History

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Success in any type of work relies as much on one's attitude toward it as on the skills and techniques applied.

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Rapid Application Development: rough and dirty or value-for-money engineering?
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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Communications of the ACM Volume 45, Issue 10
October 2002
138 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/570907
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