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Visionate document linker drives productivity and quality

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Documentation principles The Visionate approach to documentation is based on principles designed to support the Lean-Agile-DevOps concepts of enabling the effective flow of work through the system, and the shortening and amplifying of feedback loops. An element of this is to have standards-based approaches to documentation with a separation between the process elements which describe …

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The Four Work Types of Devops

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The 4 Work Types The 4 work types in IT is a concept that was first popularized by Gene Kim and others in their modern fable of IT called ‘The Phoenix Project’.  The Phoenix project is a short easily read novel, in the spirit of a Lean classic called ‘The Goal’ by Eli Goldratt. The …

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Advanced Practitioner – Creating great deliverables

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How to create great deliverables (printable checklist at bottom) Purpose and objectives The principle of Flow requires that work moves from left to right, quickly, and without impediment, and without being returned for rework. But when work forms eddies, or, even worse, travels backwards, this impedes flow , and it is a signal that we …

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AP- Simple Test Case Management

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Why might we need to manage test cases? In a well resourced project or system, the roles for Quality Assurance will be established and operating well. But sometimes we find ourselves in situations where we do not have formal support from Quality Assurance roles, or where there is not an organizational tool available that can …

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The Daily Scrum – Better questions

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The daily stand-up (or daily scrum) is an agile event that encompasses multiple parts of the Lean concept of Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (The Shewhart Cycle). So what is it for? It is a check in with the rest of the team In PDCA this is known as Check, in agile it is known as Inspect; both naming …

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Review Program

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Thanks to everyone for the feedback we have received so far on the development of our advanced practitioner courses. To assist in navigation the course links are below. Please note that ‘Advanced Practitioner – Agile Business Analysis’ is the current course open for feedback. (The first part of this course does however contain foundational material …

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