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SPACE Framework
By Nicole Forsgren and collaborators
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“Leading researchers including Those Behind the Dora and space Frameworks”
“designed by Leading researchers including Those Behind the Dora and space Frameworks”
“we called it space because it stands for the five Dimensions that you want to measure”
“this space paper for sure”
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