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What ALM Tool Features Best Support Agile Software Development?Joe Farah details the key features necessary in application lifecycle management (ALM) tools to make them practical for agile development. At a minimum, agile-friendly ALM tools must support user stories, prioritization, traceability, continuous integration, and metrics for post-iteration analysis. | 
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How Agile Can Deliver on a Fixed-Budget (Not Fixed-Price) PromiseDevelopment projects run into problems any time they attempt to stick to a fixed-price, fixed-scope, and fixed-completion contract. Learn why this fixed iron-triangle sets projects up for failure and what agile teams can do to solve the problem and make the customer and the developers happy. | 
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Meet These Preconditions Before You Think about Project EstimationsWhen estimating a project's release or budget, you can have only one number-one priority. If management has not thought about the constraints, they may be asking employees to cram in too many features with insufficient time. Read on for some conditions and guidelines about estimating for a project. | 
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Warning Signs of a Project Headed for Trouble When running a project, there will be many chances for things to go wrong. Usually, there are warning signs a project is going off the rails. You should be on the lookout for any of the signs listed in this story so you can take steps sooner rather than later to reorient your project toward success. |
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How to Be Productive by Not Being UnproductiveThe biggest factor keeping us from being productive may be all the things we do that make us unproductive. Striving for perfection, refusing to admit to being stuck, and jumping from one project to another are just some of the things that hold us back. Naomi Karten tells you how to get it in gear. |
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Rethinking Typical Project Management Approaches"Don't work on projects, work on products!" is a cry often heard in the agile community. But if you have a team pulled together to support an ongoing product, it doesn't make sense to use typical project management techniques. Maybe projects aren't the problem—their organizational structures are. | 
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"Adding Manpower to a Late Project Makes It Later" and Other WisdomYou probably know from experience that adding manpower to a late software project just makes it later. But did you know that's actually a maxim known as Brooks' Law? Read on for more whimsical, wise, and wacky principles named for people that you've come across (or proven) in your professional life. |
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The Latest in Military Software DevelopmentIn this story on the latest in military software development, it's been reported that due to software complexity the cost of the much-anticipated F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has ballooned since the project's inception. Additionally, software used in the Afghanistan War is being updated for US police. | 
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