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What the Boeing Dreamliner 787 Team Can Learn from Agile Methods

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s grounding issue is currently the talk of the town. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy lists the issues surrounding Boeing's airplane problems and how agile methods could have benefited the company's development team.

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What Do You Do to Manage Software Metrics?

Dealing with software metrics is one topic that is going to come up in your career. At some point, your boss or higher-up will request metrics from you or your team on the software, your process, or the people. Joe Townsend writes on how you can manage metrics.

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The Importance of Holistic Design for Successful Products

Mukesh Chaudhary explores why users seem to believe that Google Search and iPhones are more useful than other similar products. It can be concluded that the overall user experience plays a big role in the success of a product as well as a well-thought-out holistic design.

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Mukesh Chaudhary
Why Mobile Apps Are Contributing to Software Quality Degradation

The software market is flooded with products of poor quality. Is the rise of the mobile app to blame?

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Jamie Saine
Why Software Development Doesn't Need to Be Perfect

It’s a cliché that the perfect is the enemy of good. It’s also a driving principle of agile software development. Delivering software, or even ideas, that are good enough to work with but not “perfect” can encourage collaboration and creativity—and lead to a better solution.

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Romney Defeat Due in Part to Poor Software Quality

Mitt Romney's Election Day defeat is being attributed to a number of important factors including the failure of Project Orca, a key software application that was intended to help turn out the vote, monitor election results, and report on suspected election fraud.

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Bob Aiello
Cyber Attacks: The Effect on CM and QA

This month US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta issued a call to arms over the growing cyber attacks on American banks. Joe Townsend explores how these attacks will affect configuration management professionals and quality assurance dilemmas.

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Joe Townsend
Apple Maps: Disaster or Simple Mistake?

When Tim Cook issued a public apology over the release of Apple Maps, critics were quick to jump on Apple. Joe Townsend looks at the long-term impact of the release of Apple Maps and whether it will go down in history as a disaster or a simple mistake.

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