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Software development method tailoring at Motorola

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 46, Issue 4

Pages 64 - 70

https://doi.org/10.1145/641205.641206

Published: 01 April 2003 Publication History

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Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to be added but when there is nothing left to take away.<br>---Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Software development method tailoring at Motorola
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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