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1) Book review: "Extreme Programming Explained" by Kent Beck

2) Agilier at the forefront of next-generation business network

3) On customer-supplier relationships and the T5 Agreement

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This is a recently-revised edition of the classic, controversial work that put the spotlight firmly on lightweight, iterative software-development methodologies that collectively became known as “agile”. Read more...

We were very pleased to be asked to speak at the Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) Conference in Helsinki.  The DBE is a European Union-led research initiative that aims to connect the services of small businesses together using an Internet-based network with the following characteristics... Read more...

 Most major software- and systems-engineering projects involve a customer working closely with a number of suppliers. Sometimes this relationship works well; often it breaks down into mutual acrimony at best - legal action at worst. In the future, I think that the software industry may turn to a ground-breaking civil engineering project for customer-supplier relationship best practice. Read more...

Have a good month.

Kind regards,

Marcus Price

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