MIS 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Project Management Institute, Rational Unified Process, Systems Development Life Cycle

• School: SDSU
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 180
• Professor: Robert Judge

Document Summary

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