Software Development Best Practices

How to Use Value Stream Mapping to Improve Your Software Development Process

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Software development projects turn more complicated as they scale. Increased collaboration between multiple teams (often geographically-dispersed) can lead to a greater degree of confusion, and subsequently — loss in productivity due to information asymmetry and knowledge gaps. If you’re looking for ways to tune up your development process, value stream mapping (VSM) is a tool that can help.

CMM vs. CMMI: What's the difference?

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CMMI is a newer, updated model of CMM. SEI developed CMMI to integrate and standardize CMM, which has different models for each function it covers. These models were not always in sync; integrating them made the process more efficient and flexible. CMMI adds Agile principles to CMM to help improve development processes, software configuration management and software quality management.