Portentous as it may sound, the manifesto represents the distillation of several successful team-oriented techniques, and should inspire innovation groups outside the confines of software development.

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Duncan said the strongest trends his company sees in these development initiatives are in the growth of service-oriented software architectures, subscription-based software sales and industry-specific standards in areas such as radio frequency tags and cellular telephony standards.

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