Agile development methods avert costly failures

Martin Courtney
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Department for Work and Pensions plans to base all future software development on agile software project management frameworks

Part of a wider IT cost transparency drive would typically involve an analysis of the money spent on software licensing costs, but it should also pay close attention to how much individual governme...

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