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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

An Agile Process

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LECTURE 2 History – the Agile Manifesto 2001 – Kent Beck and 16 other noted software developers, writers and consultants (referred to as “Agile Alliance”) signed the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development.” Agile methods –developed to overcome perceived and actual weaknesses in conventional software engineering. It can provide important benefits, but is not applicable to all projects, product, people, and situations.   Manifesto Defined   MANIFESTO. A solemn declaration, by the constituted authorities of a nation, which contains the reasons for its public acts towards another. -Dictionary.net     Manifesto for Agile Software Development   We are uncovering better ways of developing...

Videos on Waterfall and Spiral Model

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Waterfall Model Spiral Mo...

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Software Engineering Fundamentals

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What is Software Engineering? is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software. Engineering is the science, discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical...

Top 3 Answers in "A Failed Project" question

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 For those who attempted to answer the given question, thank you very much for your effort. Here are the Best Answers, in sequential order: 061308 Syeda Mehnoor Rafaie 061306 Sahar Qureshi 071319 Syed Mehdi Congratulations and keep it up! ...

Friday, September 11, 2009

A Failed Project

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Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in 1940. It is one of the classic civil engineering project failure: there were aerodynamic problems, and there were structural problems due to the size of the supports, and there were other problems that combined to cause a distinctive resonance which gave the bridge its distinctive “gallop.” But one of the most important lessons we took...
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