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@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ example, once it was demanded a complete layout change because another
 government leader suddenly decided to make a marketing campaign about the new
 SPB portal. They would use undelivered requirements as a means to justify the
 lack of financial support, which was already approved in the first place. We believed that if we took too
-long to attend their demands, the project would end. CD helped us keep the 
+long to attend their demands, the project would end. CD helped us keep the
 production environment up-to-date, even with partial versions of a feature. That
 way, we always had something to show on meetings, reducing anxiety to get the platform concluded. For our team, it made the developers more confident that the
 project would last a little longer and they would not go looking for other
@@ -215,10 +215,10 @@ Before the adoption of CD, the development team could not track what happened to
 after its delivery, since government technicians were the only responsible
 for deploying the project. The implementation of the referred
 approach influenced developers on taking ownership of the project because it
-made them feel equally responsible for what was getting into production. 
+made them feel equally responsible for what was getting into production.
 Interestingly, the CD pipeline had the same effect on the team of requirement analysts.
-They were an active part of the pipeline and became more engaged on the whole process. 
+They were an active part of the pipeline and became more engaged on the whole process.
 After the incorporation of the pipeline into the work process, analysts
 became more active in opening and discussing issues during the platform evolution.
 Additionally, developers worked to improve the CD pipeline
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ governmental bureaucracy (up to 3 days) to release access to the production
 environment resulted in additional delays for the deployment step to begin.
 This problem was softened when the analysts realized the impact of
 these delays on the final product and decided to allocate the revisions in its
-work schedule and to request the access to production in time. 
+work schedule and to request the access to production in time.
 ### Strengthening trust in work relationship with the government
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ relationship between developers and government analysts, as well as between the
 analysts group and its superiors. Before using CD, analysts had access to the
 features developed only at the end of the release, usually every four months.
 However, this periodicity did not meet the requirements of their leaders, who
-demanded monthly reports on the progress of the project. 
+demanded monthly reports on the progress of the project.
 With the implementation of CD, intermediate and candidate versions became
 available, allowing analysts to perform small validations over time. As they
@@ -269,34 +269,34 @@ addressed by the industry and academia together.
 Taking on CD responsibilities had a significant impact on the team. We did not
 have the know-how and had little time to come up with a working pipeline. The
 senior developers were crucial at this point. They came up with an initial
-solution to get us started. That already enabled us to automatize the deploy,
-even though the process was still rudimentary. We had to evolve our solution
-on-the-fly. We dedicated a few developers to this task.
+solution to get the team started. That already enabled us to automatize
+deployment, even though the process was still rudimentary. We had to evolve our
+solution on-the-fly. We dedicated a few developers to this task.
-Building a CD pipeline was hard in the beginning. We believe that more tools
-that provide out-of-the-box standardized CD pipelines would be of great help
-for inexperienced teams. Tools that track each step of the pipeline and
-organize logs in a human-manageable way are necessary too.
+Building a CD pipeline was hard in the beginning. More tools that provide
+out-of-the-box standardized CD pipelines would be of great help for
+inexperienced teams. Tools that track each step of the pipeline and organize
+logs in a human-manageable way are necessary too.
 ### Handling inexperienced teams
 After the developers learned how CD worked, it was difficult to pass the
-knowledge along to other teammates. We tried to mitigate this by encouraging a
-member's migration to the DevOps team. Further research on how to effectively
-spread knowledge across inexperienced developers in a high turnover scenario
-are needed.
+knowledge along to other teammates. We tried to mitigate this problem by
+encouraging members to migrate to the DevOps team. We suggest further research
+on how to effectively spread knowledge across inexperienced developers in a high
+turnover scenario.
 ### Overcoming mistrust
-In the project's first half we struggled with deploy related problems in the
-government structure. We were in a paradoxical situation. The government
-demanded speedy deliveries but would not give access to their production
-infrastructure. After some interactions with government agents, they
-created the VE as an isolated replica of the PE in their own infrastructure.
-The government agents then realised that it could be beneficial for the project
-if they granted us access to part of the structure.  We believe it is required
-more research on development protocols and policies to improve the relation
-between industry and government, specially regarding CD.
+In the project's beginning we struggled with deployment issues in the government
+structure. We were in a paradoxical situation. The government demanded fast
+deliveries but would not give access to their production infrastructure. After
+some interactions with government agents, they created the VE as an isolated
+replica of the PE in their own infrastructure. The government agents then
+realised that it could be beneficial for the project if they granted us access
+to part of the structure. More research is required on development protocols and
+policies to improve the relation between industry and government, specially
+regarding CD.
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