Glossary December 2020

Agile Release Trains (ART)

The Agile Release Train (ART) is a long-lived team of Agile teams, which, along with other stakeholders, incrementally develops, delivers, and where applicable operates, one or more solutions in a value stream. Agile Release Trains align teams to a shared business and technology mission.

Source: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/agile-release-train/

SAFe

A set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide enterprises in scaling Lean and Agile practices; SAFe is one of a growing number of frameworks that seek to address the problems encountered when scaling beyond a single team.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_agile_framework

Pair Programming

An Agile software development technique in which 2 programmers work together at one workstation. One, the driver, writes code while the other, the observer or navigator, reviews each line of code as it is typed in. The 2 programmers switch roles frequently.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming

Digital Transformation

The adoption of digital technology to transform services or businesses, through replacing non-digital or manual processes with digital processes or replacing older digital technology with newer digital technology.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_transformation

IT Modernization

IT Modernization aims to bring legacy IT infrastructure up-to-date and focuses on addressing operational challenges, including efficiency, access, security, and agility.

Source: https://blog.augustschell.com/what-is-it-modernization-and-why-should-i-care

Kanban

A Lean method to manage and improve work across human systems. This approach aims to manage work by balancing demands with available capacity, and by improving the handling of system-level bottlenecks.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development)

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The Related Post

A list of terms that are either found in the articles of the December 2015 edition, or are related to concepts relevant to those articles.
ALM (Application Lifecycle Management): A continuous process of managing the life of an application through governance, development and maintenance. ALM is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management. Source Control: There are many source control tools, and ...
Mobility While mobile usually refers to mobile device, mobile apps, mobile platform. Mobility is a term describing not only the device but access for employees accessing corporate data from any location, cloud storage and cloud API services, mobile context awareness, integration with a variety of Internet of Things devices. It’s access to the data, products, and ...
Some Mobile Device Input Methods Swipe/Swype: An action taken on a device’s screen that involves translational movement of touch points. A swipe recognizer makes an instantaneous decision as to whether the user’s touches moved linearly in the required direction.
Tcl/Tk Language Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language, suitable for a very wide range of uses, including web and desktop applications, networking, administration, testing and many more. Open source and business-friendly, Tcl is a mature yet evolving language that is truly cross platform, easily deployed and ...
Scrum Board A Scrum Board is a tool that helps Teams make Sprint Backlog items visible. The board can take many physical and virtual forms but it performs the same function regardless of how it looks. The board is updated by the Team and shows all items that need to be completed for the current ...
Extreme Programming (XP) XP is a software development methodology which is intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer cycles. A type of Agile software development, it advocates frequent “releases” in short development cycles, which is intended to improve productivity and introduce checkpoints at which new customer requirements can be adopted. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming ...
Artificial Intelligence is here. AI is already being used in development, testing, tool development, and products. Its use will undoubtedly grow and become more pervasive. At LogiGear Magazine we regularly include a glossary of terms on the issue topic. In this issue, the glossary is unique. If you are just beginning to learn about AI ...
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Continuous integration and continuous deployment merge development with testing, allowing developers to build code collaboratively, submit it to the master branch, and check for issues. Source Digital Modernization Digital modernization is the adoption of new technology. It involves upgrading systems, platforms and software to meet today’s modern needs. Source Digital Transformation ...
Platform – A computing platform includes a hardware architecture and a software framework (including application frameworks), where the combination allows software, particularly application software, to run. Typical platforms include a computer architecture, operating system, programming languages, related user interface and tools. For example, Android, the most common mobile platform, is Google’s open and free software ...
Ultra-large-scale system An ultra-large-scale systems (ULSS) is one which has the characteristics of: operationally independent sub-systems; managerially independent components and sub-systems; evolutionary development; emergent behavior; and geographic distribution.
ACID Properties In computer science, ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps. In the context of databases, a sequence of database operations that satisfies the ACID properties (which can be perceived as a single logical operation on ...

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