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Industrial-scale agile: from craft to engineering

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Ivar Jacobson,

Ian Spence,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 59, Issue 12

Pages 63 - 71

https://doi.org/10.1145/3009830

Published: 01 December 2016 Publication History

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Essence is instrumental in moving software development toward a true engineering discipline.

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Industrial-scale agile: from craft to engineering
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
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December 2016

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EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/3022085

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