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The remainder of this book describes the practice areasand their usage experiences in industry. The practice areas provide software companies with structure to use to organize innovation. The practice areas are not written from an engineering perspective. They are orthogonal to the typical software engineering disciplines such as requirements management, architecture, testing …

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.ideastorm.com/.

  2. 2.

    http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn.

  3. 3.

    http://www.sugarcrm.com.

  4. 4.

    http://www.mysql.com.

  5. 5.

    More information at http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=PROJ_ICT&ACTION=D&CAT=PROJ&RCN=72069.

  6. 6.

    In traditional engineering environments, the difference in productivity between an expert and an average engineer is two-three to one.

  7. 7.

    In sociology, interpersonal ties are defined as information-carrying connections between people. Different kinds of interpersonal ties are identified: strong, weak and absent. The ‘strength’ of an interpersonal tie is a relation of the amount of time spent between people, the emotional intensity and the intimacy of their interactions (Interpersonal ties) (Granovetter 1973).

  8. 8.

    http://www.adpemploymentreport.com.

  9. 9.

    http://www.openstreetmaps.org.

  10. 10.

    Navigation Companies Crowdsource Maps, Traffic Services,http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/user-generated/.

  11. 11.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherPad.

  12. 12.

    http://www.ideaconnection.com/thinking-methods/.

  13. 13.

    http://www.mycoted.com/Main_Page.

  14. 14.

    http://www.gogamestorm.com/.

  15. 15.

    http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/tools/6hats.htm.

  16. 16.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing.

  17. 17.

    http://www.apache.org/.

  18. 18.

    http://www.gno.org/gno/.

  19. 19.

    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/.

  20. 20.

    http://www.eclipse.org/.

  21. 21.

    http://symposium2009.itea2.org/.

  22. 22.

    http://www.artemis-ju.eu/.

  23. 23.

    http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/.

  24. 24.

    http://www.project-medea.eu.

  25. 25.

    http://www.eniac.eu.

  26. 26.

    http://www.celtic-initiative.org/.

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  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

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