WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009
IBM Rational® software has helped thousands of companies worldwide improve their agility with software best practices, tools and services. This evaluation guide is designed to help you choose the best tool for your needs today, while protecting your investment as your team, needs and agile maturity grow.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009
Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software. This report describes a set of seven best practices whose objective is to encourage development based on component re-use and software assembly.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009
This whitepaper explains the advantages of reusing open source components in projects implemented by agile development teams, discusses the issues and risks that must be managed, and highlights the benefits organizations can receive by leveraging open source components.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009
This paper presents a set of agile meeting and facilitation checklists that offer an easy framework to help guide software development teams through the various agile cycles. Read on to learn about the Agile Development Rhythms and start using the checklists presented herein to help get through the various agile cycles.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
This white paper will explore the impact agile development methodologies are having on the Project Management community, what new skills are required, and what the Project Manager can do to ease the transition.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 May 2009 | Published: 26 May 2009
This white paper considers the changing focus of the requirements space and how requirements definition differs from requirements management. A business analyst's struggles with defining requirements using common office software and tools are related. Finally, a requirements definition solution is introduced and discussed.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008
Requirements definition and management is an activity that has the potential to deliver a high, fast ROI. This white paper explains the characteristics of a good requirement and presents ten steps to better requirements management. Read on to learn how better requirements translate into easier, higher quality projects.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Published: 23 Dec 2008
This white paper explains a structured way to manage requirements and how risk-based requirements and quality management are inseparable from the larger process of managing the planning, test and release of a software system.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 02 Oct 2008 | Published: 26 Sep 2008
This white paper discusses the significant impact of agile development techniques on the business analyst community. Gain insight into the skills required by analysts for effective agile development, as well as the steps for a transition to agile...
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