iteration

Examples of iteration in the following topics:

• Trends in Management

  • Modern trends in management favor agile, iterative processes that focus on innovation, software development, and social impacts.
  • Each of these approaches is a management philosophy equipped for rapid construction, iteration, and implementation.
  • The agile management philosophy is an adaptation of iterative management.
  • All production of new and innovative products and services will require constant refinement and improvement through iterative experimentation.
  • The idea is the that the process itself is self-sustaining in pursuit of agreed upon objectives via an iterative cycle of production.

• Productivity Gains from Software

  • Agile software development is a group of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.
  • It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery, a time-boxed iterative approach, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.
  • Each iteration involves a team working through a full software development cycle when a working product is demonstrated to stakeholders.
  • An iteration might not add enough functionality to warrant a market release, but the goal is to have an available release (with minimal bugs) at the end of each iteration.
  • Multiple iterations might be required to release a product or new features.

• Hardware and Software Improvements

  • This model combines some key aspects of the waterfall model and rapid prototyping methodologies, but provides emphasis in deliberate iterative risk analysis, particularly suited to large-scale, complex systems.
  • The spiral is visualized as a process passing through some number of iterations, with the four-quadrant diagram representative of the following activities:
  • Agile software development uses iterative development as a basis but advocates a lighter and more people-centric viewpoint than traditional approaches .

• Key Characteristics of Entrepreneurs

  • Test, analyze, figure out why you failed, evolve, and iterate.

• New Product Ideas

  • Idea genesis: The evolutionary and iterative process of progressing an initial idea from birth to maturation into a tangible idea.

• The State of Technology

  • In marketing, online tools can enable rapid iterative testing of creative assets and utilization of social networks.

• Managing Up and Employee Feedback

  • This image demonstrates the basic concept of iterative feedback, where suggestions lead to evolving behavior.

• Current approaches to job design

  • There are many more iterations of job design theory that have evolved from the practices of previous generations, but one general trend can be identified among them; the move towards autonomous work teams and the importance placed upon the meaning derived from the individual.

• Controlling Activities

  • Organizations are made up of operational systems, each of which can be iterated upon and optimized for improved performance.

• Innovation

  • The Kline Chain-linked model of innovation places emphasis on potential market needs as drivers of the innovation process, and describes the complex and often iterative feedback loops between marketing, design, manufacturing, and research and development (R&D).