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Quality Control: Using Acceptance Testing to Guarantee Product Quality

Altexsoft

UAT can be performed not only at the final stages of development but during UX/system design or as soon as a product demo is ready. The first principle behind the Agile Manifesto reads “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.”.

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The Challenges and Traps of Architecting Sociotechnical Systems

Strategic Tech

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. For example, teams in the same tribe may have joint retrospectives, demo sessions, kick-off meetings, joint quarterly updates, planning sessions together, and so on.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Dramatic advances in software engineering workflow can be traced to the 2010 book Continuous Delivery [22] by Jez Humble and David Farley. And yet, most enterprises thought rapid delivery was an anomaly – certainly serious enterprises that valued stability would not engage in such dangerous practices.