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A Deep Dive into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

The Product Coalition

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development. The Analysis Phase has brought clarity to our software’s purpose.

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Product Dogfooding in Software Development: A Quick Guide (+Best Practices)

Userpilot

The term comes from a commercial and was first used in the software context by a Microsoft manager in 1988. Product dogfooding enables organizations to shorten the feedback loop by testing their products for bugs and usability issues before releasing them to the users. Review and adjust your testing protocols.

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7 Common Types of Software Testing

Usersnap

Most developers have no clue about how testing is actually done, and how valuable the understanding of software testing basics can be for developers who really want to excel in their careers. I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 5, Origins of Agile Approaches

Johanna Rothman

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Especially since teams now had these levers, from the iterative and incremental approaches: Prototype something for fast feedback.

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Why Product Demos are so Valuable

Mind the Product

In Agile software development, so-called sprint demos are a key part of every iteration, but whatever product you’re building, be it an app, a website (or even a physical product), demos can be incredibly valuable. By engaging them in the process of developing a product, demos can build trust with stakeholders.

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Managing Feedback: Do you start with a No?

Mind the Product

I met with each department’s key leaders, and together we outlined a feedback funnel where their team could submit requests. The key leaders installed a validation process to review and approve the items sent to our Product team. The value of the feedback funnel was significant: Duplicate feedback items were eliminated.

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Customer Feedback Repository: Definition, Types, Tools, and How to Set One Up

The Product Coalition

It can hold feedback from various sources such as customer support tickets, feature requests, surveys, reviews, and social media. By aggregating all of this feedback in one place, product teams can gain a holistic view of customer needs and pain points. It’s the database where all the customer feedback data gets centralized to.