SCL Aug Sep 2010 Software Development How Agile Are Yoususanatkinson
'Software Development - How Agile are You?' - Article featuring in the August/September 2010 edition of the magazine for the Society for Computers & Law (SCL)
Ciklum, the European leader in IT nearshoring for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), presents nearshore Agile development as a relatively new, yet effective Outsourcing 2.0 trend, able to better meet with the challenging requirements of today's high-tech environment compared to traditional offshore waterfall development.
An introduction to the basic principles of Agile methodologies, explaining the reasons organisations adopt the approach.
Highlights ways in which in doing so can help deliver business value early and often.
Gartner Research Director Thomas Murphy notes that software quality is often a poor misnomer for the current practice of risk management applied by most companies. Many organizations use risk management to mitigate delivery risk, typically at the expense of application quality. Learn about the importance of focusing on application structural quality to reduce business disruption risk in this Gartner-CAST paper.
SCL Aug Sep 2010 Software Development How Agile Are Yoususanatkinson
'Software Development - How Agile are You?' - Article featuring in the August/September 2010 edition of the magazine for the Society for Computers & Law (SCL)
Ciklum, the European leader in IT nearshoring for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), presents nearshore Agile development as a relatively new, yet effective Outsourcing 2.0 trend, able to better meet with the challenging requirements of today's high-tech environment compared to traditional offshore waterfall development.
An introduction to the basic principles of Agile methodologies, explaining the reasons organisations adopt the approach.
Highlights ways in which in doing so can help deliver business value early and often.
Gartner Research Director Thomas Murphy notes that software quality is often a poor misnomer for the current practice of risk management applied by most companies. Many organizations use risk management to mitigate delivery risk, typically at the expense of application quality. Learn about the importance of focusing on application structural quality to reduce business disruption risk in this Gartner-CAST paper.
Technology Projects. What could possibly go wrongAndrew Lewis
Looks at common types of blockers that can impede technology projects, and how identifying local blockers can be used as a positive tool for focussing and prioritising scoping tasks, to help deliver projects successfully.
Delivered to Museum Computer Network conference, Seattle 2012
There are four major questions that need answers when applying agile software development to DOD development programs
1. How can Agile Development methods increase the Probability of Program Success (PoPS) on Earned Value programs?
2. How can Agile development be integrated with the FAR / DFAR and OMB mandates for program performance measures using Earned Value?
3. What are the “touch” points (or possible collision points) between Agile and EIA-748-C?
4. What are the measures of success for Agile methods in the context of EIA-748-C?
Macrosolutions Consulting Service: Project Maturity Assessment and DiagnosisMacrosolutions SA
Only who has the needed expertise can evaluate the maturity of your organization in Project, Program and Portfolio Management and recommend effective improvements to its processes.
An Introduction to Agile Software DevelopmentSerena Software
Agile software development stresses rapid iterations, small and frequent releases, and evolving requirements facilitated by direct user involvement in the development process. Serena’s application lifecycle management tools provide a framework to visualize scope, orchestrate mundane and repetitive development tasks, and enforce process. Unlike agile-specific products offered by agile-only vendors, Serena products are methodology neutral and can be applied equally well to agile as well as more traditional serial development processes, so they can support all the development activities within an enterprise.
Agile software development is a group of software development methods in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continuous improvement, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.
The Agile development model is also a type of Incremental model. Software is developed in incremental, rapid cycles. This results in small incremental releases with each release building on previous functionality. Each release is thoroughly tested to ensure software quality is maintained. It is used for time critical applications.
More organizations are recognizing the many benefits that Agile delivers.
As organizations start embracing the approach, there are gaps in understanding about what it is, what it involves and what value it brings.
What is Agile Development is the first in a series of Agile eBooks from Intelliware Development intended to help eliminate those gaps.
Technology Projects. What could possibly go wrongAndrew Lewis
Looks at common types of blockers that can impede technology projects, and how identifying local blockers can be used as a positive tool for focussing and prioritising scoping tasks, to help deliver projects successfully.
Delivered to Museum Computer Network conference, Seattle 2012
There are four major questions that need answers when applying agile software development to DOD development programs
1. How can Agile Development methods increase the Probability of Program Success (PoPS) on Earned Value programs?
2. How can Agile development be integrated with the FAR / DFAR and OMB mandates for program performance measures using Earned Value?
3. What are the “touch” points (or possible collision points) between Agile and EIA-748-C?
4. What are the measures of success for Agile methods in the context of EIA-748-C?
Macrosolutions Consulting Service: Project Maturity Assessment and DiagnosisMacrosolutions SA
Only who has the needed expertise can evaluate the maturity of your organization in Project, Program and Portfolio Management and recommend effective improvements to its processes.
An Introduction to Agile Software DevelopmentSerena Software
Agile software development stresses rapid iterations, small and frequent releases, and evolving requirements facilitated by direct user involvement in the development process. Serena’s application lifecycle management tools provide a framework to visualize scope, orchestrate mundane and repetitive development tasks, and enforce process. Unlike agile-specific products offered by agile-only vendors, Serena products are methodology neutral and can be applied equally well to agile as well as more traditional serial development processes, so they can support all the development activities within an enterprise.
Agile software development is a group of software development methods in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continuous improvement, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.
The Agile development model is also a type of Incremental model. Software is developed in incremental, rapid cycles. This results in small incremental releases with each release building on previous functionality. Each release is thoroughly tested to ensure software quality is maintained. It is used for time critical applications.
More organizations are recognizing the many benefits that Agile delivers.
As organizations start embracing the approach, there are gaps in understanding about what it is, what it involves and what value it brings.
What is Agile Development is the first in a series of Agile eBooks from Intelliware Development intended to help eliminate those gaps.
A MAPPING MODEL FOR TRANSFORMING TRADITIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS TO ...ijseajournal
Agility is bringing in responsibility and ownership in individuals, which will eventually bring out effectiveness and efficiency in deliverables. Agile model is growing in the market at very good pace.Companies are drifting from traditional Software Development Life Cycle models to Agile Environment for the purpose of attaining quality and for the sake of saving cost and time. Nimbleness nature of Agile is helpful in frequent releases so as to satisfy the customer by providing frequent dual feedback. In Traditional models, life cycle is properly defined and also phases are elaborated by specifying needed input
and output parameters. On the other hand, in Agile environment, phases are specific to methodologies of Agile - Extreme Programming etc. In this paper a common life cycle approach is proposed that is applicable for different kinds of teams. The paper aims to describe a mapping function for mapping of traditional methods to Agile method.
There are dozens of myths about Agile development. But before jumping into specific misconceptions, let’s have a look at some common business challenges:
For senior-level execs: do you value revenue growth or cost containment?
For project managers: do you value team efficiency or effectiveness?
For developers: do you value code quantity or quality?
In each scenario, you probably struggled to make a choice given that your two options were not mutually exclusive.
Posing the question this way creates a false dilemma since you likely value both options but to varying degrees. So the better question is, of the two options, which do you value more?
Lowering business costs: Mitigating risk in the software delivery lifecycleIBM Rational software
This paper explores the relationship between risk management and requirements management, describing how improved project success rates require teams to focus on business outcomes, become as productive as possible, and mitigate risks with proven tools and techniques.