Week 4 Flashcards

(15 cards)

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7 lean principles?

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Eliminate waste
Build in quality 
Create knowledge 
Choose as late as possible 
Deliver as fast as possible 
Empower the team
Emphasize se the whole
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What are examples of waste?

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Wasted time, capital, brain power, defects, poor planning, poor MVP design

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What does build-in quality entail?

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Everything must be high quality, including the details

Lots of testing, good design processes, automation, constant feedback

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What does create knowledge entail?

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Requires self-discipline and process

Documentation, sharing info with team, open culture…team

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Why commit as late as possible?

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Always unknowns so commit late so that other elements facilitate visibility

Late=more informed

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Why deliver as fast as possible?

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Speed=competitive advantage

What user wanted during design I’d still what they want at delivery

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What does empowering the team mean?

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Listen to developers

Sparks creativity and results in higher quality work

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What does optimize the whole entail?

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Think about product as a whole

Too much focus on subsystems can result in overly designed and complex subsystems that are hard to integrate

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What is waterfall development

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Design happens sequentially

More suitable for HW

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What is iterative development? What is it used for? Compatible with?

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At each given time, more than one iteration of the product design/development cycle is being conducted

Long and large projects

Compatible with agile, suitable for SW

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What is backlog?

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List of deliverables necessary for project

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What are the 2 backlog rules?

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If not necessary, deliverable should be removed

If new item is known during development cycle, it gets approved by leads and added to backlog

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What are the 6 steps of testing?

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Component/subsystem 
Integration testing (do components work together?)
Full system/ unit testing 
Field testing 
Iteration on user testing and feedback 
Beta releases (flush out scale bugs)
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What is quality assurance?

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About avoiding mistakes and preventing a faulty product

Happen at all stages

Should be quantifiable

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What is quality control? What methods does it involve?

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Encompasses QA and usually post development

Failure testing, statistical control, company quality, total quality control (done when everything ok but sales still drop)

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