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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

Planview

Misaligned Work Misaligned work occurs when tasks are not directly aligned with an organization’s highest priorities, often due to unclear communication or poor understanding of these priorities. This helps avoid the accumulation of unmanageable work due to multitasking. It is recommended to keep WIP (Flow Load) at about 1.5

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UI Pattern Documentation Review

Boxes and Arrows

The prospect of such efficiency gains has led to interest in user interface (UI) patterns by individuals and organizations looking for ways to increase quality while at the same time reducing the costs associated with software development. I refer to collection of patterns as a library.

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Get the most out of your Continuous Integration & Continous Delivery (CI/CD) workflow using Automation

Acuvate

This pipeline is used to configure CI(Continuous Integration) and CD(Continuous Delivery) and is referred to as build and release pipelines. This means that any commit that happens to the solution by dev team will trigger the build immediately. Please refer [link]. Technical Benefits.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

A major change for the industry was the move to the software as a service (SaaS) model, often referred to as “the cloud.” From that work, Harmony’s team would then create a new design vocabulary and apply it to QuickBooks Online and every other product Intuit offers. Klaus Kaasgaard and Dan Wernikoff during a design review.

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Control and Community: A Case Study of Enterprise Wiki Usage

Boxes and Arrows

The example on which these reflections are based is a project within the software company CorVu [1] to improve the technical knowledge base related to the products we sell. A lot of knowledge at that level resides with the Professional Services team rather than the Product Development team.