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The completion definition (DoD) is a list of requirements that the user story must comply with so that the team can invoke it as complete. The acceptance criteria for user stories include a set of test scenarios that will meet the requirements to confirm whether the software works as expected.
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Industry analysis is a tool to help companies understand where they stand compared to other companies that produce similar products or services; Understanding the impact factors across the industry is an important part of effective strategic planning that enables small business owners to identify threats and opportunities facing their business and focus resources on developing unique capabilities that provide a competitive advantage.
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MVC (known as Model-View-Controller) is a pattern in software design that is commonly used to implement user interfaces, data, and control logic. It emphasizes the separation between the business logic and presentation of the software. This “separation of concerns” provides better division of labor and better maintenance.
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UML activity diagram is another common tool used by UML to model the dynamic behavior of the system. It describes the sequence of activities and shows the flow of control from one activity to another. UML activity diagram is essentially a flow chart.
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Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software development process, which relies on transforming software requirements into test cases before software is fully developed, and tracking all software development by repeatedly testing software for all test cases. This is the opposite of developing software first and then creating test cases. Some popular models support TDD very well, such as MVC and MVP.
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A use case approach is a kind of technique for identifying the business goals of a system. The identification of use cases helps define system scope, ensuring that the requirements to be found will all be aligned with the business values, needs and strategy.
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A use case is a requirements capture and documentation technique that can be written in plain text to describe in a narrative manner the actions and interactions of participants using the system. Finally, the functionality of the system should satisfy the purpose for which stakeholders use the system.
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A Five Forces analysis can help companies assess industry attractiveness, how trends will affect industry competition, which industries a company should compete in — and how companies can position themselves for success.
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Use cases are often graphical, and use case diagrams are supported by text descriptions, including use case and participant descriptions, as well as scenarios associated with use case templates that make use case methods simple and intuitive and ideal tools for discussing and clarifying developers’ understanding of user needs.
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It’s important to prioritize your product backlog to make sure it doesn’t become an open-ended list where everyone has random ideas about your product. Your to-do list needs to be structured, organized, and prioritized to identify the most strategically important things for your team to do. In this article, I introduce the 100 Points method for product backlog refinement activities.
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