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Reskilling IS professionals: individual and organizational adaptation to software process innovations

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SIGCPR '95: Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGCPR conference on Supporting teams, groups, and learning inside and outside the IS function reinventing IS

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https://doi.org/10.1145/212490.212589

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