Software Development Guidelines
A Software Development Guidelines is a Task-Specific Guidelines for Software Development.
- Context:
- It can include Cultural and Team Management Practice Guidelines, such as:
- Cultivating a progressive Workplace Culture.
- Upholding internal Accountability within Development Teams.
- Fostering a culture of Quality Assurance.
- Creating an environment that nurtures Innovation and Experimentation.
- Coordinating with Stakeholders for comprehensive development requirements.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align development objectives.
- It can encompass Development Process and Workflow Practice Guidelines, such as:
- Implementing phased approaches and managing feature branches.
- Preparing release candidates and streamlining deployment processes.
- Balancing workloads among development branches.
- Prioritizing upskilling in emerging practices and optimizing build processes.
- It can include Code Quality and Standards Practice Guidelines, such as:
- Enforcing branch protection policies and coding guidelines.
- Incorporating linting tools and security best practices.
- Adhering to industry best practices for coding and architectural design.
- It can involve Testing and Quality Assurance Guidelines, such as:
- Establishing unit testing as a standard practice.
- Designing integration tests and performing system testing.
- Conducting regression and load testing.
- It can involve Code Integration and Review Practice Guidelines, such as:
- Enabling auto-merge features and continuous code review.
- Establishing clear review expectations for merge requests.
- It can focus on Security and Compliance Guidelines, ensuring regular security assessments and compliance with industry standards.
- It can address Performance and Scalability Guidelines, measuring performance benchmarks against established SLAs.
- It can include guidelines on User Engagement and Feedback Guidelines, integrating user stories into development cycles.
- It can include Cultural and Team Management Practice Guidelines, such as:
- Example(s):
- A set of guidelines used by a Software Development Company to ensure efficient and quality software production.
- A handbook adopted by a Project Management Team outlining best practices in software development.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- General Management Guidelines, which are not specific to software development.
- Hardware Development Guidelines, focusing solely on physical hardware development.
- See: Contract Playbook, Software Development Excellence.