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Productivity Tools for the Modern Team

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Providing an agile development team with tools to be productive goes beyond handing each one of them a laptop with compilers. Communication and collaboration tools, whether face-to-face or geographically diverse, are crucial in modern teams. Here we discuss collaboration tools and other tools that will be crucial today and in the future. We will discuss three major types of productivity tools for agile development programs/projects:

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Crowder, J.A., Friess, S. (2015). Productivity Tools for the Modern Team. In: Agile Project Management: Managing for Success. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09018-4_4

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