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Research and Advances Aug 1 2009

Technical Perspective: Maintaining Quality in the Face of Distributed Development

It was a problem that should not have taken three weeks to solve. The documentation claimed that if a function was called from a command line with particular parameters, it would return values of particular state variables.

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Research and Advances Oct 1 2006

Dependency Forecasting in the Distributed Agile Organization

Coordination, or the management of dependencies among tasks, can be accomplished in a number of ways in software development projects. Coordination mechanisms include such things as a defined software process, a well-documented software architecture, and detailed project planning. Agile methods tend to eschew these formal coordination mechanisms in favor of frequent, intensive, informal communication among […]

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Research and Advances Jun 1 1997

Software quality and the Capability Maturity Model

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