And they participate in user-driven development for products at forward-thinking companies like Nike Design and Lego Factory.
Pegasystems offers a popular model-driven development environment that integrates elegantly with existing applications.
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Equally important are the engineering practices of Extreme Programming (XP), particularly test-driven development, simplicity of design, pair programming and re-factoring (upgrading and simplifying) software code.
Feature Driven Development, another popular approach, contrasts with Scrum by defining the main features that a software product must have, prioritising them and then working doggedly through the list.
Of all the companies I have looked at, however, Appian seems to be the leader in combining the social business capabilities, the structured and partially structured process description functionality, connectivity to existing applications, model-driven development, and mobility in a vision they call Worksocial.
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What emerged was Agile test-driven software development, where work is done in an iterative fashion and fully integrated on a continuing basis.
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Between 2007 and 2012, a full 96 percent of increased domestic oil production was driven by development on state and private lands.
The report says that the Nepal experience highlights the question of whether primary textbook-driven curriculum development can meet the skills and dispositional learning outcome ambitions of DRR Education.
"Our stated aim is to be player centred, development driven and competition supported, " said WRU head of rugby performance and development.
Mr Quadir replies that thanks to economic development driven by mobile phones, parents can afford to educate their children.
HEROtsc said the results were largely driven by the development of new accounts and strong growth in its existing client base.
It was a development driven partly by the increasing complexity of societies founded on agriculture but much more by the organisational challenges of conducting warfare on an ever-greater scale.
Since 1999, adhering to the principle of "driving product, service and management innovation via system and technology innovation", Wasu has developed into a large state-owned media group in China with rapid development driven by "new media, new network".
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Leader is part of the Scottish rural development programme and supports small scale, innovative community driven projects that encourage local development and benefit the community.
At the same time, limited space for real-estate development has driven up property prices across the board.
This means that product development is driven by customer insights, that brands are truly relevant to the target audience, and that all channels deliver the brand experience the customer was promised and expects.
Aquatic colloid science and engineering is currently undergoing a period of rapid development, driven by the emergence of a range of new and complementary techniques for the separation, fractionation and characterisation of colloidal material.
Pathways to Sustainable Value Creation in 2020 report, IBM sends 500 of its most promising leaders to perform community-driven, economic-development projects in four continents.
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Mr. Park emphasized that the phone's software development was driven by four key requirements that Samsung research found consumers most desired: The phone had to be fun, encourage closer relationships, offer convenience and help improve health and wellness.
Examples of how the Conventions contribute to development include the UNESCO designated sites, such as the nearly 1000 World Heritage properties and over 500 Biosphere Reserves, which provide ideal laboratories where innovative heritage-driven approaches to sustainable development are tested.
Then her parents moved to the very multi-cultural Hawaii, which was just beginning an economic boom driven in part by the development of jets which made the flights shorter and the islands more attractive.
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With the likes of Google, Nuance and Vlingo now offering mobile speech-recognition services for phones, and the development of speech-driven systems for use in vehicles, Parakeet may be flying into a growing market.
Typically, these are motivated by a conspicuous success, a development program that was driven by the strength of beautiful molecular data, and the canonical example these days is PCSK9, a target which seems to feature an almost unprecedented alignment of human genetics, biomarker, and animal model data.
Innovation is not driven by high expenditure on research and development, but by the company's insights into consumer habits.
Sri Lanka continues to experience strong economic growth, driven by large-scale reconstruction and development projects following the end of the 26-year conflict with the LTTE.
The Summit was organized by ITU under the patronage of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to ensure that social and economic development, which is increasingly driven by ICTs, will result in a more just, prosperous and equitable world.
Spectrum has also signed an exclusive collaboration with Allergan (AGN), a technology-driven global health care company, for the development and commercialization of Apaziquone, an agent aimed at treating non-muscle bladder cancer.
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Her goal to make healthcare more accessible for all Indians has driven her to search for a cheaper model of drug development.
Economists say India's slowdown is driven by the country's slow pace of infrastructure development because of bureaucratic hurdles and policies unfriendly to business.
Following economic liberalization in 1991, these same elites were best placed to secure privileged access to lucrative contracts in mining, property development and infrastructure the sectors that have driven India's recent economic growth.
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