Project Management
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Agile Project Management Online Resource Center contains a set of full text business research reports by industry experts from the Cutter Consortium, in the areas of software development and project management: agile methodologies, XP, software development practices and project management collaboration and techniques. Go to Databases for Project Management, find Agile Project Management Online Resource Center in the list and click on the name to connect. Look for the words 'usyd is logged in' at the top.Browse
You can browse individual resources on the website, by year or by resource.
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If you prefer to search by keywords, click Advanced Search at the top and enter your search words into the text box. Set the Narrow your search by resource center drop-down menu to Agile Project Management, because this is the only part of the Cutter website we subscribe to. If you search all resources, you will end up with many documents you cannot access.Read Search Tips and Boolean Operators further down on the screen, to learn how to search more effectlively. This website requires captial letters for AND and other operators, and quotation marks for exact phrase searching, for example "product life cycle". Please refer back to the information about searching if you wish to learn more.
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