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| <font size="5"><strong>Open Source Practices for Agile Projects</strong></font>
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| Why Practices?
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| <p>
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| Practices enable a new approach to building methods - practice composition.
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| This approach offers the following benefits:
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| Adaptability and scalability
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| Incremental adoption
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| Easy to configure and use
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| Community development
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| Adaptability and Scalability
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| The set of practices included in the&nbsp;Open Source&nbsp;Practices for Agile Projects supports a range of
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| solutions.&nbsp;In particular, these agile practices can be adapted to suit your organization and supplemented by your
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| own practices.&nbsp;
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| Incremental Adoption
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| Each practice is described as a standalone capability that can be adopted by an organization or project.&nbsp;Each
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| practice may include enablement materials that explain how to get started.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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| Easy to Configure and Use
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| Creating a method is as simple as selecting the practices that you wish to adopt, and then publishing the
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| results.&nbsp;Each practice adds itself into the framework so that content can be viewed by practice, or across
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| practices by work product, role, task and so on.
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| Community Development
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| Since a practice can be easily authored on its own, practices are ideal for community development.&nbsp;The basic agile
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| practices for the&nbsp;Open Source&nbsp;Practice Library are, in fact, developed by the Eclipse Process Framework
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| community.&nbsp;
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