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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). Then we have all these practices you hear about residing under this Test First banner - TDD, BDD, and ATDD. Test Driven Development (TDD). Write the code. Refactor Code.

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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This overwhelming majority demonstrates that service excellence transcends other considerations and has a big influence on brand views. Apply this in your projects Code software to add in customers’ names and default to their location. In addition, 89% of consumers moved to rivals after having a bad customer experience [ii].

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

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Another approach is to track many organizations over time as they adopt Agile methodologies, while also measuring anything else that could influence their results other than agility itself. So we went to Google Scholar and searched for review articles. SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

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Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence.”.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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

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Wang et al (2006) studied software teams tasked with ERP implementations and found that cohesive teams performed significantly better than less-cohesive teams. This is probably due to the difficulty of measuring many teams over a long period of time. This effect is stronger for smaller teams than larger teams. Bradley et. Bradley, B.