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Improve Your Distributed Development Team's Results With Working Software
By: robert duff
Requirements and software {{development|programming}}} have a strange and sometimes strained relationship. Good requirements are a prerequisite to ensuring you get what you need. But written in a prose style, they rarely offer a
complete picture for the developer. Thus, over time, developers have made many attempts at improving this situation. One consistent mechanism they have used is actually showing you what you will get--first by writing and sharing prototypes and eventually
evolving to developing and demonstrating working software.(read
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Category : Business
Staffing Alternatives In Distributed Software Development: Part 1 Of 2
By: robert duff
Part 1 of a 2 part series describing a study conducted to assess the attitudes and experiences of IT management in U.S. midwest organizations towards the utilization of employees, U.S.-based contractors, and offshore outsourcing resources for technology firms operating in a distributed software development environment. For this study, a distributed environment was defined as: “software development resources, including employees and contract resources, working from two or more distinct locations.â€(read
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Category : Business
Staffing Alternatives In Distributed Software Development: Part 2 Of 2
By: robert duff
Part 2 of a 2 part series describing a study conducted to assess the attitudes and experiences of IT management in U.S. midwest organizations towards the utilization of employees, U.S.-based contractors, and offshore outsourcing resources for technology firms operating in a distributed software development environment. For this study, a distributed environment was defined as: “software development resources, including employees and contract resources, working from two or more distinct locations.â€(read
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Category : Computers
Four Keys To Offshoring Business Analysis
By: robert duff
Conventional wisdom holds that business analysis is one of the few software development activities not well suited for offshoring. This article argues that it can be done successfully by following four key steps and can improve productivity and quality of offshore teams by co-locating BAs with developers and testers.(read
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Category : Computers
