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Pull criteria

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Pull criteria in Kanban are a task’s requirements before proceeding to the next stage. This method efficiently manages work-in-progress and steady workflows because only ready tasks are moved forward. Kanban uses pull criteria to improve quality control and workflow efficiency. Specifying readiness conditions ahead of time helps prevent bottlenecks and overload. This method manages workloads, minimizes errors, and maintains standards. As a result, projects are delivered more consistently, resources…

Service classes

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The principle of service classes, a key component of Lean methodology, is instrumental in efficiently organising, prioritising, and managing work.

The seven wastes

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Taichi Ohno identified seven types of waste that do not add value to the customer. The wastes were categorised to assist employees in systematically identifying and eliminating them.

Minimum viable teams

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The power of minimum viable teams lies in their streamlined communication channels. With fewer members, information flows naturally and decisions happen swiftly.

Self-organising teams

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Self-organising teams are groups that work together toward a common goal, making decisions and managing tasks without supervision or authority from an outside source.

Sprint velocity

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Various models, techniques, and tools can assist with effort estimation in software project management. An agile software project involves iterative development, in which customer feedback informs future iterations. This means estimations and planning need to be updated over time. Scrum teams use three levels of planning to accomplish this: release planning, sprint planning, and daily planning. Software development based on agile principles has adopted scrum widely due…

Scales Agile Framework (SAFe)

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SAFe, or scaled agile framework, was developed by Dean Leffingwell and Drew Jemilo to address a businesses’ evolving needs. When it was created, software development teams were largely reliant on traditional project management techniques. SAFe was developed in response to organizations’ increasing need to adapt rapidly to market changes while still maintaining high quality. Today, it is one of the most popular agile development approaches. SAFe is…

Technical debt in software development

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According to industry observations, design trade-offs result in the most significant technical debt, which code quality measurements cannot detect. Assessing technical debt in industry and research is difficult due to the lack of practical tools.

Feature-driven development

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Coding standards, measurement audits, and metrics are crucial to F.D.D.’s quality concept. Feature-driven development prioritises meetings compared to other methodologies (such as Scrum and XP).

Disciplined agile delivery

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According to the Disciplined Agile Process (D.A.D.), stakeholders recognize that external customers are not always the project’s focus. The term “customer” has become popular among some software teams because it has shifted their focus from technology to business needs.