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Agile project management: steering from the edges

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Agile project management lets software project managers and employees alike adapt to changing circumstances, rather than try to impose rigid formal controls, as in traditional linear development methods.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 48, Issue 12
        The semantic e-business vision
        December 2005
        104 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/1101779
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