Agile Development
Agile methodologies raise productivity, enhance quality and provide improved customer satisfaction regarding software projects. This interactively layered approach to software development provides a new paradigm in programming methodologies to organizations and companies that are searching for smaller, faster, cheaper software.
Agile methodologies reduce risk by developing software in small iterations. Each iteration includes planning, requirements analysis, design, coding, testing and documentation to release a new functionality. A well designed agile software project should be capable of releasing new software at the end of every iteration. Lean, simple, adaptable methodologies like these have an expanded use in new industry and ideology. Embedded systems, safety-critical products and additional complex-development environments are beginning to require agile methodology to keep pace in a dynamic global environment.
eXtreme Programming (XP)
XP is just one of the agile methodologies that supports these principles. XP takes traditional software engineering practices to extreme levels, leading to a development process that is more responsive to customer needs than traditional methods, while creating software of better quality. WinLum's use of XP and other agile methodologies allows us to provide you virtually instant adaptability to changing requirements throughout all phases of project life. Changing requirements in software development are inevitable; instant adaptability provides a more seamless, cost-effective way to introduce software into your system.
There are 11 fundamental principles that define the difference between agile software development and traditional software development:
- Active user involvement is imperative
- The team must be empowered to make decisions
- Requirements evolve, but the project timescale is fixed
- Capture requirements at a high level; make it lightweight & visual
- Develop small, incremental releases and iterate
- Focus on frequent delivery of products
- Complete each feature before moving on to the next
- Apply the 80/20 rule
- Integrate testing throughout the project lifecycle—test early and often
- A collaborative & cooperative approach between all stakeholders is essential
- Agile Software Lifecycle Management
WinLum scales your software agility by promoting lean, adaptive, cutting-edge principles to dramatically shorten development cycles, increase quality and speed value delivery. You can rely on WinLum's leadership to help your organization sever the need for use of older, plan-based methodologies that are risky, slow, wasteful and non-adaptable. We tailor an agile development program for your unique environment that includes three steps:
- Adopt and formalize Agile practices across the enterprise.
- Match your company's project structures, dependencies and culture.
- Decompose high-level requirements and track their implementation across multiple teams and releases.
Integration and open Web services interfaces integrates your commercial and open source tools for easy data gathering and sharing of decision support information leads to a well coordinated effort of product development and a maximization of resources.
Allow WinLum to create agile development for your business and extend support to your internal processes.
