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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, Third Edition
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, Third Edition

by Sam Guckenheimer, Neno Loje
September 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 14m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, Third Edition

1. The Agile Consensus

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

—Paul Romer (attributed)

Wars and recessions become focal points for economic and engineering trends that have developed gradually for many years before. The Great Recession of 2007 through 2010 is a case in point. In 2008, for example, Toyota—the youngest of the world’s major automobile manufacturers—became the world market leader, as it predicted it would six years earlier.1 Then in 2009, two of the three American manufacturers went through bankruptcy, while the third narrowly escaped. The emergence from this crisis underscored how much the Detroit manufacturers had failed to adapt to competitive practices that had been visible and documented for decades. In 1990, Jim Womack and ...

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