Questions tagged [process-improvement]
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How to make sprint planning fun
Not only are our sprint planning meetings not fun, they're downright dreadful.
The meetings are tedious, and boring, and take forever (a day, but it feels like a lot longer).
The developers complain about it, and dread upcoming plannings.
Our…

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What is a helpful mindset when conducting a formal code review
Our team has recently started conducting code reviews against each checkin.
As the team lead I'm trying to find a balance between providing too many suggestions, annoying developers and decreasing the teams output, and letting go of code I would…

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How can I apply Six Sigma in a software development environment?
I am a Java developer, but I was asked to learn about applying Six Sigma with the goal of increasing our organization's profits. I have read that Six Sigma can be applied in all environments, but I'm interested in the nuances of applying it to…

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How should standards and process improvements be introduced to an organization without them?
I've been tasked with improving the software development process through the implementation of process improvements, of which we will most likely be using CMMI for Development, Version 1.3 as a guideline and adopting the best practices in whole or…

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Post-mortem of a project
Scenario: I've been working for half a year on a small project with a team of two people. They are working in a foreign country, so most of the time we worked via video conference tool.
While those tools work well for providing information,…

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How do you assess your Agile compatibility?
After adopting Agile for a while now, we started to think that we can improve how we do Agile. But for starter, we need to know how well are we doing now and to identify the problems in our current processes before we can improve it.
One thing we…

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optimise my solution
I just solve this but want know more efficient way to do matrix multiplication
M :
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1 1 0
0 0 5
3 2 0
f[n] = M^n
I have implemented using Exponentiation_by_squaring
Is there more efficient then this ?

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What kind of projects/fields do programmers who enjoy code optimization find themselves in?
I think most of us strive to make our code run smoothly, read logically, and altogether function well. But for those who really enjoy taking the time to figure out how to optimize already good code (whether it's their own or someone else's), where…

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"Dev to QA handover" process improvement
I would like to get some help or ideas to solve my problems,
I just join a small company as junior project manager and I faced with 2 challenges sorry for my ignorance but I am new into the agile world.
QA has many tickets in each sprint that…

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