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HELENA Study: Initial Observations of Software Development Practices in Argentina

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2017)

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HELENA Survey is a worldwide initiative that aims to investigate the use of hybrid software development approaches ranging from agile to traditional and how they combine. This article presents the initial results and observations on software development practice in Argentina, and briefly discusses two patterns of interest related to software development practice usage.

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Paez, N., Fontdevila, D., Oliveros, A. (2017). HELENA Study: Initial Observations of Software Development Practices in Argentina. In: Felderer, M., Méndez Fernández, D., Turhan, B., Kalinowski, M., Sarro, F., Winkler, D. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4_34

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