What: Cisco Research Tech Talk
Where: ENGR IV: 54-134
When: Thursday, April 23, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Dr. Steven Fraser, Director
Cisco Research Center
Software "Best" Practices, Agile Deconstructed

"Best" really depends on context ‐ and this introduction to software "best" practices will focus on the evaluation and integration of the practices that constitute many of today's "Agile" methods. One of the interesting observations made by members of the software community is that "what is old ‐ is new again" when it comes to Agile. Another observation is that "best" is not universally applicable and boundary conditions do apply ‐ due to variations in customers, competition, context, culture, tools, scale and scope ‐ of the systems developed. This talk ‐ intended for researchers, practitioners, managers and educators ‐ does not require any specific programming knowledge and has evolved over the past ten years based on experience gleamed at several multinational organizations developing large software systems.

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