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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

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This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). This effect has been observed with flight crews (Orasuna, 1990), nuclear plant control crews (Waller, Gupta & Giambatista, 2004), and work teams (Urban et. In Achieving Quality in Software (pp. Kearney, E.,

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Test First approach sounds simply enough, right?

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A year later, in 2000, Kent Beck published another book called “ Test Driven Development by Example ” and explains Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software process and not about writing tests before the code with one more important aspect – refactoring. Behaviour-Driven Development (est 2004). Add a test. Independently Deployable.

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

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There have been some recent posts about managing scope, defining needed Features, determining how to release software to stakeholders - in both traditional and agile processes. This document is all but unknown in the Enterprise IT domain and completely unknown in the agile software development world.

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Agile Movers & Shakers (6): The Liberators Christiaan Verwijs & Barry Overeem

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“ Christiaan : A friend of mine started a software company. Barry : Failed software development projects. Barry : Failed software development projects. I was responsible for managing software development projects. Christiaan : I’ve always been developing software to help people (users, customers, myself) solve problems.

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Risk Management Resources

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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 920, November 2004. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

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Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. An Introduction to IMP/IMS , 17 Oct 2004. Capabilities Based Planning.

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