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The Agile Manifesto, Explained

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It can be a minefield, so we’re going to step carefully and try to provide you with an uncontroversial definition of agile. The phrase agile software development was first used in 2001, but agile was in fact being applied to projects since the mid-1990s. Working software is the primary measure of progress. What Is Agile?

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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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Total Quality Management: Here the quality of the product is dependent on the participating constituents, some sustainable and controllable, others not. The Software Industry. In software development, quality assurance is a way to monitor the software engineering processes. Design architecture and description.

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

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A working definition of Agile and Stakeholders. I prefer a process-based definition of agility. This definition answers the question: “What kind of processes typically happen in Agile teams that distinguish them from non-Agile teams?”. SCRUM and productivity in software projects: a systematic literature review.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

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The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. In the late twenty century, many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

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In the late twenty century many software engineering researchers in academia were studying the disturbing fact that most software and IT projects finish late or fail to finish at all. In 2001 a group of software engineers and scientists in IT industry got together and wrote Agile Manifesto.

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Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.