Here is the next part of my interview with Siddharta Govindaraj on Agile best practices, tools and myths: Initially, agile techniques were targeted only at small, co-located teams usually, but now larger teams that are geographically distributed have adopted agile. How has that change come about and ...

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Here is the continuation of my interview with Siddharta Govindaraj: Agile has its own advantages and people who vouch for it. So does a completely different way of doing things – the CMM (Capability Maturity Model). What are the compelling reasons for a person who is practicing CMM processes to ...

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