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Quality Assurance Patterns and Anti-Patterns

As software development continues to evolve, the desire to scale efforts across enterprise organizations is growing, resulting in several documented and proficient methodologies for scaling Agile practices to the enterprise. This Refcard will walk through patterns and anti-patterns in quality assurance within the Lean- and Agile forward implementations of one such methodology, the Scaled Agile Framework, also known as SAFe.

Unfortunately, this tool-heavy approach is also prevalent in implementations of quality assurance within scaled settings as well.

This is a key component for a Lean implementation and is also defined here as an essential benefit of a Lean quality assurance model.

Lean Quality Assurance in a scaled environment presents new challenges and opportunities for quality-minded individuals to evangelize and reinforce the importance of quality to their organization.