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Everyone Getting Dirty

Written by David Baird

Monday, 23 October 2006

What do you do when the big ball of mud you are dealing with is not the project you are working on, but rather the software process tools that have been customized over the years to coordinate the changes of two thousand engineers working on the same code base? When you are working as a small 20 engineer team in the swamp of a large scale project, how do you deal with the bureaucratic needs of the integration and release team while holding onto your own agile development practices? These are among our challenges, and what we are trying to do to overcome them.

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