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This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2021, which took place during March 27–April 1, 2021, and was held as part of the Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg but changed to an online format due to the COVID-…

Management by missions : connecting people to strategy through purpose

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

9783030837808

Collation

xxv +156

Series Title

-

Call Number

658.4012 COR m

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