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Methods & Tools - December 2019
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2-plan Desktop: a Free Project Management Software 2-plan Desktop is a free standalone and portable project management tool for project managers that works on all systems where you can find Java (Windows, MacOS, Linux). This software provides its own unique graphical project breakdown structure tool that covers the people, process and product components of a project. It offers a large feature that includes Gantt chart, textual and graphical work breakdown structure (WBS), resource allocation graphs, mind maps and risk management. 2-plan Desktop is part of an eco-system that includes the 2-plan Team web-based open source project software and the Work 2-gether Scrum task board online tool. Read more...


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Mature Scrum at Systematic Systematic is a CMMI level 5 company, where the adoption of Lean led to a unique way of working based on synergies between CMMI, Lean, Scrum and other agile practices. Lean provides the principles and values needed for high performance teams and organizations, as demonstrated by Toyota for more than 50 years. CMMI provides the process descriptions and support for what disciplines to consider in order to be successful. Agile approaches like Scrum provides best practices and methods for working according to the values of Lean and adopting change as it occurs. Lean, CMMI and Scrum are strong by themselves, but they can be combined to amplify each other, and that is what Systematic has done. The experiences from combining Lean, CMMI and Scrum have led Systematic to identify examples of explicit guidance from CMMI that help to execute Scrum activities even better. These activities can be implemented based on Lean values and principles and by doing so Scrum can be augmented and matured to ensure that even larger and more complex projects in the future can and will benefit from Scrum. Read more...


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The golden rules of Test-Driven Development (TDD) are:
* Don't write source code until a test requires it
* Reference new classes, methods, variables etc in your test first, so the code won't compile, and then fix it by declaring them
* Aim to have just one thing broken at a time if possible

Source: TDD, Jason Gorman, http://www.codemanship.co.uk/tdd.html


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