How can you ensure timely delivery of your team's code?

Measure the velocity and track it. Make decisions on any item that reduces the velocity. Even small changes will impact the time, so pay attention to these as well. Shorten the dev cycle to no more than 2 weeks. 1 week is even better.

Clarity of Requirements is vital. Enhance by high stakeholder involvement. If requirements are unclear, iterative or agile approaches can allow removing uncertainties. Specify expected deliverables clearly and track completion (including QA). Prototype to resolve unknown issues. Involve developers in estimating and get their commitment to meeting deadlines. Show progress graphically. Do an architecture (at least a rough one) early so everyone knows what the parts are, how they fit together and what they are responsible for. Use good tools (e.g. IDE, Refactoring, Test etc. ). Implement automated regression testing and build/deployment infrastructure. Manage scope, quality and any deviations carefully. Use small teams with high skills.

They provide a comprehensive understanding of what the project aims to achieve and serve as a roadmap for project planning, execution, and evaluation. Keep a checkpoint with the stakeholders regularly. At the end of your dev cycle must include a demo. Demo always helps and avoid rework later. This is my personal experience from last couple of years.

Ensuring timely delivery of your team’s code is crucial for project success. Here are some effective strategies to achieve this goal: Transparent Communication: Understand requirements, set quality standards, and maintain open communication. Agile Practices: Use Scrum or Kanban, break tasks into smaller pieces, and prioritize. Solid Documentation: Keep clear project documentation. Risk Management: Identify risks and address technical debt. Technical Excellence: Encourage learning, code reviews, and automated testing.

Ensuring timely delivery of your team's code requires effective planning, communication, and management. Here are some strategies: Set clear goals and deadlines. Break tasks into manageable units. Prioritize critical tasks. Use efficient workflows like Agile. Maintain regular communication. Utilize tools and automation. Foster collaboration among team members. Manage scope creep effectively. Provide necessary support and resources. Monitor progress closely.

I have been experiencing 1 week sprints, we call them rush sprints because it forces the team to be more focus that a 2 weeks sprints. If things are not planned correctly, and with 2 or 3 sprints ahead planned then the team will feel lost and dont see a clear goal on what they are working on.

Planning is one of the essential ingredients. Things should be placed ahead of time on the tracking board before the actual sprint starts, this ease out and helps the team to visualise and research on the required items. You should also be well aware of any POC if required Or any business clarifications should be discussed and approved well in advance.

Planning sprints, typically one or two weeks long, is key for timely code delivery. This involves prioritizing tasks, allocating resources, and tracking progress. Tools like Jira, Trello, or Asana are useful for managing sprint backlogs, assigning tasks, and monitoring their status.

Sprint planning will determine what items should be delivered in a period of time. Sometimes, we need to reprioritize the backlog with some items after conducting the sprint review (spilled-over, high-priority task that comes in the middle of sprint, etc). The goal of having sprint is to make same level of understanding of what we will work on for. The another concern is to regularly have backlog refinement process as well, to get to know about which backlog items are ready to be picked up, so we don't need longer time to plan the sprint. Last but not least, make a sprint goal to let everyone focus on what point that we want to achieve and it will make the sprint more effective.

Two week sprint will be the best practice and effective way of planning. Also it helps the team focused and on-track on their backlog items.

Version control, using systems like Git, SVN, or Mercurial, is crucial for tracking and managing code changes. It facilitates branching for different features, merging code, and reverting to previous versions. Store code in remote repositories like GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab to minimize conflicts, errors, and data loss.

Version control has many advantages, it gives us a timeline on how the bricks that we are working on are being set along the time, and also permits us to know when something was done on X day, and get back in time to prevent problems, its always good to have a versioning in place because it permits multiple people on working the same place of the project, of course it will have conflicts some times due to the fact that 2 people can work on the same lines, but with some team work these blocks are simply removed.

-Every development envrionment should have a version control to retain a trace and versioning structure. -It benefits pair programming with branch development and PR approvals and implementation of CI/CD and DevOps. -It helps feature prioritization.

Version controls also gives insights of individual and a project. Keep track of the productivity as well as percentage of rework.

Implementing code reviews ensures quality by having team members review each other's work. It aids in identifying bugs, optimizing performance, and maintaining coding standards. Tools like CodeGuru, Codacy, or CodeClimate can automate this process. Best practices include constructive feedback, using pull requests, and documenting changes.

Having done a lot of code review this is a good way of having people look at the quality of our work even if not the full knowledge of the code behind that Pull Request lines, but even if a person has never worked on that code it can look at a Pull Request on a purely functional prespective. Of course its always good to have a fellow developer who knows that piece of code to know if a implementation is correct or not.

Code reviews is must for every line of code. Try to break the task into smaller sub tasks and send for review after completion of each task. This is avoid the rework.

Add test cases as much as you can. Definitely take help from AI tools like CoPilot, AI assistance. These tools will save a lot of your time specially unit testing and test case generation. This is my personal experience.

-Test Driven Development helps with the understanding of how well the developers have understood requirements. Creation of test cases and automated test should be the first step of development. -Clearly defined boundaries for Unit testing, integration testing, regression and performance determines if the application is ready for release.

Testing a functionality is often forgotten, but in reality its something as crucial as the requirements, because if a developer has created tests for a functionality it gives a bullet proof vest assurance that its going to work. Of course the tests should be done by a different developer then the one creating the code, otherwise the developer will be creating tests to make its code work and not think as an "outsider".

Assuming that the business requirements are clear: I would recommend to automate the entire development process - a. Add code quality tools as part of IDE b. automate unit tests c. continuously integrate the code d. Deploy continuously in test environments

Put effort into the initial quote. It's almost always wrong, but increase the time according to your team's track record. But make sure your initial estimate is not lazy and missing a major component.