Flashcards in Week 4 Deck (15):
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7 lean principles?
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?
Wasted time, capital, brain power, defects, poor planning, poor MVP design
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What does build-in quality entail?
Everything must be high quality, including the details
Lots of testing, good design processes, automation, constant feedback
4
What does create knowledge entail?
Requires self-discipline and process
Documentation, sharing info with team, open culture...team
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Why commit as late as possible?
Always unknowns so commit late so that other elements facilitate visibility
Late=more informed
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Why deliver as fast as possible?
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?
Listen to developers
Sparks creativity and results in higher quality work
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What does optimize the whole entail?
Think about product as a whole
Too much focus on subsystems can result in overly designed and complex subsystems that are hard to integrate
9
What is waterfall development
Design happens sequentially
More suitable for HW
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What is iterative development? What is it used for? Compatible with?
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?
List of deliverables necessary for project
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What are the 2 backlog rules?
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?
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?
About avoiding mistakes and preventing a faulty product
Happen at all stages
Should be quantifiable
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