IGI is a recognized leader in offshore agile development in which the Company delivers onshore, offshore, and dual-shore projects.
- Principles of Agile Development
- The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from small, self organizing teams of highly experienced developers
- Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhance agility
- Welcome changing requirements, even late in development, to harness change for the client's competitive advantage
- Business people and developers work together daily throughout the project (to define and refine requirements, set and adjust priorities based on ROI vs. risks, define test criteria, test results, etc.)
- Satisfy the client through early and continuous delivery of valuable software
- Deliver working software frequently (frequent, releasable development iterations with time boxed deliverables)
- Working software is the primary measure of progress
- Face-to-face conversation is most efficient and effective method of conveying information
- Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential
- At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts accordingly
- Key Agile Methods
A “common sense” way of working, agile prescribes a set of values, practices, and rules in a development framework that can be quickly implemented and repeated. Business benefits include:
- Improved Business Value and Reduced Delivery Risk: as a result of higher levels of business buy-in, higher business involvement, clearer alignment of functionality to business requirements, higher levels of adoption, and improved ROI.
- Improved Quality and Greater Staff Retention & Morale: agile approaches introduce much higher levels of development discipline through best practices such as automated unit testing, continuous integration, and refactoring. This leads to higher levels of delivery quality and confidence and lower levels of total cost ownership.
- A “Win-Win-Win” Scenario: where the project teams are empowered and motivated, the users are provided solutions that they want, and the business is enjoying rapid ROI with reduced risk.
- Agile Methods Consulting Services
In addition to providing application development and testing services using agile methods, IGI provides agile methods consulting services. The Company transfers the skills which enable clients to take their own development organizations agile for higher productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. IGI can also work with clients already experienced in agile methods to conduct independent project reviews and to help clients implement project management best practices which provide for continuous improvement. IGI provides consultation for transitioning existing projects to follow agile methodology and implement an onshore – offshore self organizing team model to execute these initiatives.
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