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Agile Product Development: Agile Methodology Explained

Epicflow Blog

There is no doubt now that Agile is not just a buzzword, but a really working methodology that takes software development to the next level. . How does it differ from the traditional approach to product development? SDLC (software development life cycle) is a sequential approach to software development.

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Practical Simplification in Agile

Leading Agile

I’m not suggesting this degree of simplification is automatically or always a Bad Thing. It can become a Bad Thing when we lose sight of the larger context of our work. Technical support. Software developers/maintainers. It only becomes a Bad Thing when you assume you’ve finished.

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Process Improvement Plan: Everything You Need to Know

ProProfs Project Management

Designated team members do not have clearly defined roles to take necessary action. In other words, a business process improvement plan involves a proactive approach to identifying and assessing weak processes within the series of established core processes within the organization. Lean Tools. Let’s explore. Reducing costs.

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

Most systems implemented in large IT organizations are point solutions implemented to solve local (departmental, business unit, or team) problems. I was showing their development teams how to automate functional tests using Cucumber. But if you tried to use one as a crop-duster, you’d achieve very poor results.

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Operational Excellence: Your Company’s Future Depends On It

Wrike

The bottom line is that to survive, companies, teams, and the leaders within them must perform at an entirely new level of efficiency. They’re borrowing from agile methodologies and figuring out how to scale these processes across their large teams and across their companies. Software can be updated and deployed in an instant.