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development, test, and release cycle. The 4-week cycles will require planning to manage
several iterations and have integration testing between different teams to happen once
the foundational cycle components are developed and delivered. The critical success
factors in the development cycle include the following:

Program plan
Release plan
Cycle plan
Teams with skills for
Front end UI/UX
Data access and transformation team
Library development teams for microservices
Testing teams
Project managers
Integration testing teams
End user teams
The next section discusses the Agile approach and Kanban methodology for imple-
mentation. The pictures are from Scaled Agile.

Development will be driven by a culture of DevOps, and this culture as defined and
implemented with the Safe method includes the following:
Collaboration and organizationdThe ability of Agile teams and IT operations
teams to collaborate effectively in an ongoing manner, ensuring that solutions are
developed and delivered faster and more reliably. This is implemented, in part, by
including operations personnel and capabilities on every aspect of the process of
development and testing.