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On Technical Debt And Code Smells: Surprising insights from scientific studies

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Why is code quality so often an issue? Why do software teams?—?despite So I was pleasantly surprised when Carsten Grønbejrg Lützen pointed at a peer-reviewed academic paper by Michele Tufano and his colleagues (2015), called “When and Why Your Code Starts To Smell Bad”. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

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As the name "Test First" suggests, you write a test first before the actual code and keep them running all the time. validate the code). This can be the first confusion in its understanding and actual meaning today, for either technical or non-technical folk. Test Driven Development (TDD). Write the code.

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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Apply this in your projects Code software to add in customers’ names and default to their location. Offer the human touch for exceptional service beyond automation As technology advances, there is a greater emphasis on automation and AI-powered solutions. Don’t ask for information you already have in the system.

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Benefits of Scaled Agile Framework ( SAFe®) – Agilemania

Agilemania

The year was 2011 and there was a pressing need for a scaling framework that could help large organizations design efficient systems to build enterprise level products/solutions to cater to customer’s rapidly changing needs. In the Scaled Agile Framework, every team member works diligently. Take an economic view.

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Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: The First Step

The IIL Blog

It is able to (with proper prompting) write poetry, generate code, plan vacations, translate languages and do much more. In March 2023, Google launched Bard , and Baidu , the Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services, introduced ERNIE Bot. Risk Management. Action Taker.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

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Bushe and Chu (2011) identify seven situations that drive the use of fluid teaming in those environments: High turnover among employees, leading to changes in teams. Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. Bradley et.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

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So we went to Google Scholar and searched for review articles. 2010) reviewed 28 scientific studies that investigated how Scrum is associated with overall business outcomes. A strength of such a review is that it allows for the identification of patterns across many studies. Journal of systems and software , 81 (6), 961–971.

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