Concept: Practice
This Guidance Type presents a proven way or strategy of doing work to achieve a goal that has a positive impact on Work Product or process quality.
Main Description

Practices are orthogonal to methods and processes. They often summarize aspects that impact many different parts of a method or specific processes.

In Software Engineering, examples for practices include:
  • Manage Risks,
  • Continuously verify quality,
  • Architecture-centric and component-based development, etc.

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