Improving Lean, Service-Oriented Software Development at Codeweavers Ltd

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Author(s): Paul Shannon (7digital Ltd, UK), Neil Kidd (Codeweavers Ltd, UK), Paul Barrett (Codeweavers Ltd, UK), Chris Knight (Codeweavers Ltd, UK)and Sam Wessel (Esendex Ltd, UK)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 14
Source title: Software Design and Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4301-7.ch057

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Systems & Software Design / Systems and Software Engineering

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Following a successful adoption of lean and agile practices, the development team at Codeweavers Ltd has furthered its approach to service-oriented software development for the motor finance and insurance industry. Through iteratively inspecting and adapting their processes over the last twelve months, the team members have seen a change from their Kanban-style single piece flow to multiple work cells developing with separate swim lanes on a work in progress board and within fixed length iterations. The arrival of strong competition to their market led to a positive shift towards customer service and interaction with increased attention on lean planning and agility. This chapter reports on improvement in software craftsmanship with a focus on quality, largely achieved by the use of service-oriented architecture, combined with increased use of mocking for unit-testing. The perspective taken is from software team members, and in the chapter, the developers chart their own observations, improvements, and failures over the course of a year.

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