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Management, SDLC, and customer validation

Management, SDLC, and customer validation

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Management, SDLC, and customer validation

- [Instructor] We've covered a lot of ground on the importance of the SDLC, and how development projects are managed. The nuts and bolts of these processes for creating software are essential to helping teams meet specific timelines, stay on budget, and deliver a good product. However, above all these things the most important perspective are the needs of the customer. At the core of most processes there is a requirement for customer validation. In Agile customer validation is often part of the sprint and part of the overall vision of the system. During DevOps the driving schedule is often dictated by the customer. And last, the waterfall method uses the testing stage to incorporate customer feedback. No matter what the process, customer validation is critically important to the success of these models. The customer is why the product is being built and is the driving force behind the quality team. The voice of…

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