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How Real
Performance
Improvement Is
Achieved
This part of the topic addresses how real performance improvement is
achieved by focusing on how to find repeating specific weaknesses, and
what you can do about them.
Chapter 9 is intended to help you think a little “outside the box” by demon-
strating the use of an Agile approach together with key CMMI practices to
help solve a non-work-related challenge. Through this personal challenge, I
draw some nontraditional conclusions—but conclusions backed up by case
study data. This case study takes us beyond the fundamentals examining
how real “consistent high performance” is best achieved.
In the concluding Chapter 10, we step back, summarize what we have
learned from these case studies, and provide an insight into real and consis-
tent performance. This part of the topic should be of interest to anyone who
is looking for practical and proven techniques to help rise above the competi-
tion both professionally and personally.
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