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To pull or not to pull

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Giancarlo SucciAuthors Info & Claims

OOPSLA '09: Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications

Pages 889 - 894

https://doi.org/10.1145/1639950.1640052

Published: 25 October 2009 Publication History

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The Toyota Production System promotes "pull" scheduling to reduce the production of parts that do not comply to what the customer needs. The use of "pull" within software represents a radical change in the way activities are planned. This article gives two examples of the possible application of "pull" within software engineering and de-scribes a measurement tool to assess the current costs and amount of rework within a software development project. The described approach aims to help practitioners to under-stand whether to use "pull" or "push" in their organizations.

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Astromskis SJanes ASillitti ASucci G(2014)An Approach to Non-invasive Cost AccountingProceedings of the 2014 40th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications10.1109/SEAA.2014.53(30-37)Online publication date: 27-Aug-2014
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Janes ASucci GLeavens GEdwards J(2012)The dark side of agile software developmentProceedings of the ACM international symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software10.1145/2384592.2384612(215-228)Online publication date: 19-Oct-2012
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