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A best practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to alternatives because it tends to produce superior results. Best practices are used to achieve quality as an alternative to mandatory standards. Best practices can be based on self-assessment or benchmarking. [ 1] Best practice is a feature of accredited ...
Agile software development is an umbrella term for approaches to developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by The Agile Alliance, a group of 17 software practitioners in 2001. [ 1] As documented in their Manifesto for Agile Software Development the practitioners value: [ 2] Individuals and interactions over ...
Coding best practices. Coding best practices or programming best practices are a set of informal, sometimes personal, rules ( best practices) that many software developers, in computer programming follow to improve software quality. [ 1] Many computer programs require being robust and reliable for long periods of time, [ 2] so any rules need to ...
Business process management ( BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. [ 1][ 2] Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business processes is BPM. [ 3] Processes can be structured and repeatable or unstructured and variable.
Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. As a type of agile software development, [1] [2] [3] it advocates frequent releases in short development cycles, intended to improve productivity and introduce checkpoints at which new customer requirements can be adopted.
Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development. [ 1][ 2][ 3] A practitioner, called a software engineer, applies the engineering design process to develop software. The terms programmer and coder overlap software engineer, but they imply only the construction aspect of typical software engineer workload.
Best current practice. A best current practice, abbreviated as BCP, [1] is a de facto level of performance in engineering and information technology. It is more flexible than a standard, since techniques and tools are continually evolving. The Internet Engineering Task Force publishes Best Current Practice documents in a numbered document series.
Evidence-based practice is the idea that occupational practices ought to be based on scientific evidence. The movement towards evidence-based practices attempts to encourage and, in some instances, require professionals and other decision-makers to pay more attention to evidence to inform their decision-making.