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Agile; proceedings.


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Agile ag·ile  
adj.
1. Characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble.

2. Mentally quick or alert: an agile mind.
; proceedings.

Agile Conference (2006: Minneapolis, MN) Ed. by Joseph Chao et al.

Computer Society Press

2006

423 pages

$214.00

Paperback

QA76.76

Generally speaking, agile software development Methodologies for designing software that have proven to be more effective in dealing with business realities such as changing requirements during development. It promotes industry best practices that emphasize teamwork, customer involvement and the frequent creation of small, working  attempts to minimize risk by developing software in short time "iterations," emphasizes real-time communications over written documents, and considers working software as a primary measure of progress. This volume contains the proceedings of the July 2006 North American North American

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 conference agile software development, the sixth in an annual series. It opens with 14 research papers discussing agile value and estimation, test- based specifications and refactoring, cognitive aspects of customer communications, reflections on recent approaches, and other issues. Twenty-eight experience reports follow, grouped into sections on depth of experience, planning, large companies, change agency, guerilla agile, developer practices, whole team, distributing/scaling, learning agile, and agile value. Finally, seven papers from the conference's educators' symposium are presented, addressing such topics as extreme construction, forming successful extreme programming teams, the impact of agility on a bachelor's degree in computer science, the use of agile management The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter.
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 for sharing course projects among multiple classes, examining the compatibility of student pair programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions.

See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists

, and agile teaching in a holistic Holistic
A practice of medicine that focuses on the whole patient, and addresses the social, emotional, and spiritual needs of a patient as well as their physical treatment.

Mentioned in: Aromatherapy, Stress Reduction, Traditional Chinese Medicine
 learning environment.

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