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Interpretation of results
With six Agile gene related switches (note, that we get Feature-driven plus Interactive-incremental automatically when we switch-off Waterfall) , this…
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Case 5: Introducing Customer Involvement
We now introduce the Customer Involvement gene, which means that there will be some requirements churn, however requirements uncertainty will…
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Case 3: Introduction of Refactoring
In this case we will allow refactoring. As described earlier (5.2.3) this means that when the “technical/design debt” for the…
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Case 1 ; Fixed-schedule Feature-Driven Iterative/Incremental
In the next experiment, we ‘turn off’ the waterfall switch. This activates the iterative/incremental gene and the feature-driven gene, such…
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Base Case Experiment (single-pass waterfall)
As a base-case, we start by executing the model in “waterfall mode” by using our ‘Switch for Waterfall”. It yields…
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Model Simulation Experiments
In order to perform “what if” analysis and sensitivity tests on the effects produced from the interaction of gene combinations…
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Modelling Staffing and Staff Experience
Figure 63 shows the portion of the APD model that addresses staffing and experience gain. The construct is very similar…
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Continuous Integration
As described previously, creating a “CI Environment” means acquiring, installing, and configuring the tools and servers necessary to support CI.…
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Team Dynamics
The portion of the model, shown in Figure 57, is a very simplistic approximation of the effects of the practices…
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Customer Involvement
Customer Involvement has some positive and some negative effects on our core APD rework cycle. What could be considered a…
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Micro-Optimizing
As described in section 3.3.4, the Micro-Optimizing gene represents the adaptive nature of a given project’s development processes. In an…
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Refactoring
As described above refactoring, refactoring is the work required to restructure the software baseline in order to pay off the…
