Discover how agile software development benefits our customers when it comes to quick delivery, adaptive planning and a flexible response to change.
By using agile software development, we can ensure that you get a flexible approach to planning, improvement via a continuously updated prototype, regular updates on status, and a quick response from us if circumstances change rapidly – for example, feedback from you that a certain feature isn’t quite right. This all ensures that we deliver your project on time and on budget.
So what is Agile methodology in project management? It’s a process for managing a project that involves constant collaboration and working in iterations.
In short, agile methodology favours speed of delivery, testing, and continuous feedback.
We employ Agile (Scrum), a process framework that has been used to manage complex product development. Scrum processes enable organizations to adjust smoothly to rapidly-changing requirements, and produce a product that meets evolving business goals.
Delivering software on time starts with a well-defined and realistic schedule. To ensure we’re on track we:
The key to keeping everyone in the loop and making sure the product is something stakeholders will actually buy into is keeping accurate documentation. This doesn’t mean a ton of technical documentation for you to wade through and digest, rather an evolving feature backlog and visual prototype that can change with your feedback or market demands.
Your documentation is kept up to date and made available to you through our secure project extranet.
One of the biggest issues in software development is communication – or lack of it. To avoid this, from the very start of the project we:
We make sure a tight feedback loop is created between you and the project team to provide transparency in the development process. To ensure your project is on schedule and remains on budget, we:.
For every project, we define a common environment, so that all members of the development team are using the same platform, the same tools, and a common set of coding standards.
For source code and version control we use Bitbucket, a highly reliable and flexible source code and version control system. All inputs to the project that are not static are version controlled, including:.
Our Software Configuration Management (SCM) system is a combination of tools, process, and teamwork, ensuring the delivery of higher quality software.
Software changes are thoroughly planned, coded, tested and released just like any other software project, whether it is part of a larger project in development, or a change to a live system.
Our quality assurance strategies combine both black box (manual) testing performed by the Quality Assurance (QA) team, and white-box testing performed by the development team. Our process dictates that it is the responsibility of the developer to produce defect-free code, so that the QA team can focus on assessing the state of the product.
We perform both white box and black box testing because we believe that neither method will uncover all defects. For example, while unit testing and peer code reviews can discover potential vulnerabilities or performance bugs that would be nearly impossible to trace with black-box testing, black box testing can uncover defects such as inconsistencies in the user interface, compatibility bugs, unanticipated error conditions, and timing related bugs that can only be uncovered by manual human testing.
