Your firm has decided to shut a number of locations in order to save money and lessen the environmental effect of travel. To make matters worse, the people in charge of implementing the policy have no idea that agile software development practices depend on tight collaboration and pair programming. Dissect the potential pitfalls of this new regulation and the workarounds you could consider.

Your firm has decided to shut a number of locations in order to save money and lessen the environmental effect of travel. To make matters worse, the people in charge of implementing the policy have no idea that agile software development practices depend on tight collaboration and pair programming. Dissect the potential pitfalls of this new regulation and the workarounds you could consider.

Information Technology Project Management

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ISBN:9781337101356

Author:Kathy Schwalbe

Publisher:Kathy Schwalbe

Chapter10: Project Communications Management

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