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   // Describe meaning/definitino of categories
  +
  +[[Determine-Improvement-Approach]]
  +===== Determine Improvement Approach
  + 
  + TODO
  +
  +// TODO: add sections for other categories and describe
   
   
   === Practices for Improvement
  
positive.code: === Structure of Improvement Practices
  
  ==== Fundamentals
  For improvement we take a number of fundamental principles for granted:
  
  [horizontal]
  [pattern]#Fast-Feedback#:: Get feedback to your actions and changes as early as possible,
  so you can adjust as quickly as adequate. 
  
  [pattern]#Improve Iteratively#:: Improve in (potentially small) increments, so
  that change does not disturb or negatively affect the system, its associated
  processes and organisation. Incremental improvements work well with _iterations_.
  
  [pattern]#Prototype-Improvement#:: Verify the viability and effectiveness of improvements,
  usually in smaller scales with reasonable risks. 
  
  [pattern]#Verify-After-Every-Change#:: Always make sure that changes,
  even minor ones, leave your system intact. (The awesome Jerry Weinberg has written
  up several http://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.de/2015/01/some-very-expensive-software-failures.html[examples of such failures^]).
  
  [pattern]#Explicit Assumption#:: Compensate missing facts (especially requirements, goals, estimates, opinions) by explicit (written) assumptions about those facts. See <<Explicit-Assumption>>.
  
  [pattern]#Reduce Complexity#:: Simpler solutions are most often easier to comprehend,
  maintain and operate. Therefore always strive for simplicity and the reduction
  of accidental, unneccessary complexity.
  
  [pattern]#Group Improvement Actions#:: Group related actions, so that they refer
  to similar entities and potential synergies are utilized.
  
negative.code: 
  === Goals
  
  . Plan and coordinate measures and opportunities for improvements to eliminate problems and issues found during <<Analyze, analysis>>. A whole <<Determine-Improvement-Approach ,category of practices>> is devoted to this step, called <<Determine-Improvement-Approach>>
  
  . Apply selected opportunities for improvement
  
  