The explicit documentation of the rationale of design decisions is a practice generally encouraged but rarely implemented in industry because of a variety of inhibitors. Known met...
Scrum was designed to achieve a hyperproductive state where productivity increases 5-10 times over industry averages and many collocated teams have achieved this effect. The quest...
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Model-checking techniques are successfully used in the verification of both hardware and software systems of industrial relevance. Unfortunately, the capability of current techni...
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Design rules express constraints on the behavior and structure of a program. These rules can help ensure that a program follows a set of established practices, and avoids certain ...
Effort distribution by phase or activity is an important but often overlooked aspect compared to other steps in the cost estimation process. Poor effort allocation is among the ma...
Ye Yang, Mei He, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Barry W. B...