RESEARCH QUESTION: How can agile project management assist software development teams in communicating the status of projects to stakeholders?

Outline

Your outline will help you organize your paper to provide continuity in the presentation of your ideas. It will also help you identify information areas that need to be filled in before composing (wordsmithing) sentences. The outline should enable you to be confident that your topic can be successfully researched, analyzed, and written to address research questions. Here is an example of the outline format you must use for the following sections:

1. Introduction
   1. ...
      1. ...
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         2. if needed
         3. etc. if needed
      2. ...
         1. if needed
         2. if needed
         3. etc. if needed
      3. etc. if needed
   2. ...
      1. ...
         1. if needed
         2. if needed
         3. etc. if needed
      2. ...
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         2. if needed
         3. etc. if needed
      3. etc. if needed
   3. etc. if needed
2. Literature Review (subheadings similar to above)
3. Analysis (subheadings similar to above)
4. Conclusions (subheadings similar to above)

Note that if you have an "a." subsection, you must at least have a "b." subsection. Similarly, using an "i." subsection requires an "ii." and a "1." requires a "2.". You may add more than two subsections at any level or add more (deeper) levels than the above shown. A rule-of-thumb is to have the "a., b., etc." item represent at most a paragraph by using a phrase like "industry needs to resolve scheduling problems" that might be addressed under "Introduction". You might find it useful to break down item "a." into deeper item levels that list types of scheduling problems. You might even go deeper into the itemization level to have a phrase that would represent and prompt you to a specific sentence. I try to force myself to get all the "a., b., etc." levels in all sections done before drilling to deeper item levels. It all depends on the topic. Sometimes the higher item levels in one section prompt me to make deeper level items in other sections and vice-versa. Regardless, when you are done with your outline, its quality of detail should enable me or one of your classmates to compose the sentences. Your outline must have correct spelling and usage of words and the itemization must show the continuity of your ideas.