Hris Koleva Process Improvement
Optimizing software development processes
Hris Koleva Process Improvement
Optimizing software development processes
Continuously deprioritising we-can-live-with-it issues costs more than fixing them. There’s an enormous invisible cost of letting these bugs out. A tiny bug might cost your business. Let’s now see how much the invisible cost of a year-old bug is. Organisational costs Every issue in your backlog requires management time. That might be the cost of revisiting the …
Story Points are still yet another of the great mysteries in the Agile world. They are such a mystery that they gave birth to the #NoEstimation movement. A part of the Agile community has indeed found better ways to answer when the job will be done, but most of us still struggle to give correct story …
Regardless of the framework, method, methodology, all software development processes could benefit significantly from applying validation steps across the entire process. Let’s turn Definition of Done into a powerful mechanism to assure built-in quality. Understanding Definition of Done Definition of Done is an underestimated mechanism to guide the development team not only towards completing a user …
Software engineers are often seen as the victims of a wrong development process. Everyone wants something from them – product managers, designers, testers, customers and they want it now. But do we remember what a great fellow developer looks like? Inspired by a comment from a close friend of mine when I shared Mike Cohn’s …
What is an outsourcing company? How do they operate? What are the differences between a product and an outsourcing company? Outsourcing companies continue to have a significant share in the software development market. It’s a profitable model for both the customer and the service provider. Besides the need for new software, there is a significant pile of …