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John Ferguson Smart

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John Ferguson Smart is currently project director at Aacom, a French IT firm specializing in J2EE solutions. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Aix-Marseille, France. His specialties are J2EE architecture and development and IT project management, including offshore project management. He works on large-scale J2EE projects for government and business and writes articles about J2EE and project-management-related subjects at www.jroller.com/page/wakaleo.

John Ferguson Smart is currently project director at Aacom, a French IT firm specializing in J2EE solutions. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Aix-Marseille, France. His specialties are J2EE architecture and development and IT project management, including offshore project management. He works on large-scale J2EE projects for government and business and writes articles about J2EE and project-management-related subjects at www.jroller.com/page/wakaleo.

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spreadsheet showing reliable data on the number of test cases passed, failed, and untested at a given point in time Test-based Project Progress Reporting

Deliverable-oriented project management and test-driven development can be combined to provide an objective and easily understandable way of measuring project progress for the client, team members, and management. In this article, John Ferguson Smart presents a case study of how this approach was made to work.