IT Consulting

Lean Software Product Development in 4 Phases

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Lean Software Product Development in 4 Phases — Scio

When you develop software products in a repeatable, production fashion, you have to step back occasionally and take the long view so you can properly discuss the process with clients. We’ve been involved in that exercise recently and I thought it might be useful to share the what and why of our approach to software product development for online products.

First, there is one basic idea that informs all of this:

Lean and Mean Software Development

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As per definition of Lean and mean: Ready, able, and willing to work hard and achieve the desired results, especially in an efficient or dominant manner.

What is Lean Organization?

A lean organization creates more value for customers with fewer resources. It understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste.

BA Corner: How Business Analysts can Identify Quick Wins

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A quick win is an improvement that is visible, has immediate benefit, and can be delivered quickly after the project begins. The quick win does not have to be profound or have a long-term impact on your organization, but needs to be something that many stakeholders agree is a good thing. Quick wins can be easily discovered during analysis of business processes or during requirements elicitation.

How Integrated Software Solutions Improve your Customers' Experience

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How important is customer acquisition and retention to your business? If you answered anything other than "It's critically important," you probably have problems software can't solve. But for the rest of us, understanding customers and tailoring products and services to their needs is critical to financial profitability and growth. There is a wide range of business software designed to support those goals, but sometimes, deploying these tools can create the opposite result.

Value Stream: How a Business Analyst Delivers Value

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As a business analyst, have you ever been asked to explain what you do for the organisation? The question may have come from a co-worker, but more likely you were asked by one of the more senior members of staff. The question can be quite a daunting one. Since the field of IT business analysis is still relatively young, false impressions of what exactly a competent business analyst is, and more importantly what value they bring to their organisation generally, and their projects specifically, are rife. It is therefore important that the answer given to the question is clear and accurate.