Process

Process

noun

1. a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.

2. synonyms:

3. procedure, operation, action, activity, exercise, affair, business, job, task, undertaking, proceeding

In the software industry common methods of working to achieve best practice or a regulatory minimum requirement have led to creation of standardised approaches called Methodologies:

• Waterfall - a linear, sequential set of tasks, typically of legacy projects that execute over a long time to create a product after a single iteration of the process. Often very formal, and essential in regulated areas e.g. Medical, Pharma, Aerospace. The relationship between testing and various implementation stages is often described by the V-model (in effect the waterfall process flow folded in half)

• AGILE - Where a set of requirements and solutions evolve in an iterative way by a cross functional self directed group, with ability to respond to rapid changes. scrum guide | SAFE | kanban

  • AGILE practices

    • Agile from agilealliance

    • agile practices subway map

    • XP from Kent Beck

  • Frameworks

    • scrum from scrum.org

    • nexus from scrum.org

    • scrumban - scrum team but running without timebound as per kanban

    • waterscrumfall - waterfall start and end with iterative spritns in the middle

  • Certififcation options

    • PSM1 from scrum.org

    • CSM from scrumalliance

    • SAFE scrum master from scaledagile

• PRINCE2 - A UK government derived process for project management.

• CMMI - Capability Maturity Model From the SEI

Processes can also use or include elements of practice or culture that are more informally defined:

• DevOps - Building, and operating systems at scale through collaboration and communication between software developers and IT operations teams.

• XP - extreme programming (pair programming ....)

• Lean - Lean (Kaizen, value engineering ...)

• Technical Debt -

Standards : often applied to a process to ensure it meets a specific level of requirement.

• ISO9001 - set of quality requirements for an organisation that delivers a product to a defined quality (customer satisfaction)

• ISO13485 - a specialised version of ISO9001 for the medical sector

• ISO14971 - risk management standard for medical sector

• ISO27001 - set of requirements for an Information Security Management system (CIA - Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability)