Velocity In A Few Slides

Slide 1: Velocity in a few slides © Copyright GlobalLogic 2008 2007 © Copyright GlobalLogic

Slide 2: Who am I? Alexey Maslov • Architecture & BPA Director @ GlobalLogic • Founder & CTO of BrightSide Software: Nuospace (http://www.nuospace.com) • Founder of SoftAge – first Ukrainian Agile consultancy • Coordinator of JUG Ukraine 2 © Copyright GlobalLogic 2008

Slide 3: Let me ask you first Any problems applying Agile in your company? 3 © Copyright GlobalLogic 2008

Slide 4: What is Velocity? • A Method • A Platform • A Service 4 © Copyright GlobalLogic 2008

Slide 5: Velocity Method • Agile • Distributed • Based on proven approaches (Scrum, XP) • Tailored to our clients’ needs • Continuously improved and modified 5 © Copyright GlobalLogic 2008

Slide 6: Sample Set of Practices • Distributed planning • “Proxy” customer • Inception visit • Collaboration framework • Small releases • Testing 6 © Copyright GlobalLogic 2008

Slide 7: Sample Set of Practices (cont’d) • Continuous integration • Flexible code ownership • Stand-up meetings • Simple design • Coding standards • Refactoring 7 © Copyright GlobalLogic 2008

Slide 8: Velocity Platform • Toolset to support the method • Atlassian-based: JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo • New addition: RallyDev • Our experience of what works well • Extensible • Our own tools are under development 8 © Copyright GlobalLogic 2008

Slide 9: Service • Project consulting • Agile training • Tool support and maintenance • Proactive monitoring • Anything else, sir? ☺ 9 © Copyright GlobalLogic 2008

Slide 10: Q&A Any questions? 10 © Copyright GlobalLogic 2008