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White Paper	Summary
Software Development's Classic Mistakes	White paper summarizing Construx's research into the frequency and severity of software development's classic mistakes.
Business Case for Better Software Practices	White paper describing the ROI of implementing better software practices.
Optimizing Agile for Your Organization	White paper describing major organizational, cultural, and project considerations necessary to optimize an Agile adoption.
Ten Keys to Successful Scrum Adoption	White paper describing ten tips to help your organization successful adopt Scrum
Introducing Agility into a Stage Gate Process	White paper outlining the major considerations and keys to success to introducing agility into a well defined stage gate process.
Making Change Stick	White paper outlining key strategies for helping software organizations to successfully introduce and infuse change in their software develoment processes.
Software Development's Cone of Uncertainty	White paper describing a model for understanding estimation uncertainty in software projects.
An Example Portfolio Management Process	White paper describing an example portfolio management process that supports analyzing and making decisions about which projects to pursue.
Managing Technical Debt	White paper describing how to improve your organizations ability to make explicit decisions about taking on technical debt and managing that debt.
Establishing a Measurement Program	White paper describing common measures used in the software industry and were to start when establishing a measurement program.
An Early Requirements Prioritization Technique	White paper describing a requirements prioritization technique that supports early decision making about project priorities.
Professional Development Handbook	White paper/handbook describing how your organization can improve its development capability through software engineering professional development.