Possible paper topics for Week 8:
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Discuss (in light of your experience is SOS and the readings from seminar)
the different software engineering and development models, including:
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XP
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Agile
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surgical teams
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ideas culled from MMM
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How do you think a programmer's passion affects his/her programming?
(Can you be an uninvolved programmer?)
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Discuss the of Agile or XP programming styles in the open source movement.
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Compare Cathedral & the Bazaar to GOTO. Who are they talking about? Are
the individuals in each comparable or are these different stages in the
history of the industry?
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If we think of all the books that we've read this quarter, what are the
common themes? Would you say that it's all about the struggle for
control of software development in the business environment?