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IVAR JACOBSON INTERNATIONAL :: Worldwide Leadership in Software Process Improvement

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Recent Resources

Agile Requirements with Use Cases:  A webcast by David West discusses the use of Use Cases in an Agile environment

Requirements Errors: A webcast by Kurt Bittner on how to find and recognize requirement errors 

Podcasts:  Ivar discusses the future of software development in a podcast series 

Customer Quotes

MDS senior management decided that EssUP is the way for better quality, higher productivity and lower cost. This approach has helped the project team provide instant visibility about the project, but also helps the project team to decide what could be the best corrective actions. In practice, this has been proven to be highly valuable for both the project team and senior management.

Practices are a kind of competence that will be vital for MDS to serve its international clients on sourcing development.

Mr. C. P. Chang, Executive VP,
MDS

Thought Leaders

Why all this fuss about practices?
"Everybody wants to get better at software development but it’s very difficult to know what to change. Changing everything is too much but just tinkering with standards and templates is not enough.
Practices provide a perfect unit of change, one that is not too large or too small, one that plays well with the other elements of a team’s way-of-working, one that is easy to apply and easy to learn. It is this ability to achieve rapid and sustainable improvement that gets me so excited about the work we’ve been doing on practices. "

Ian Spence