Agile Methods

Agile methods

Data Agility satifies its clients through early and continuous delivery of valuable business intelligence. We achieve this by adopting an agile approach to both software development and project management.

Agile software development

Working software is the key measure of progress in an agile software development project.
An agile approach:

• delivers working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months,
  with a preference to the shorter timeframe
• ensures that business people and developers interact frequently
• gives continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
• welcomes changing requirements, even late in development
• adopts a minimalist approach, ensuring that only the work that needs to be done is done.

Agile project management

Data Agility’s project managers build projects around highly skilled and motivated individuals.
They are adaptive leaders; not just taskmasters.

Our project managers provide an environment and level of support that allows the project team
to deliver quality outcomes. Specifically, they:

• establish a vision for the project and constantly reinforce that vision throughout the project
• promote teamwork and collaboration—they understand that the most efficient and
  effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation
• empower the team—they trust the team to do the job and offer a level of process
  support proportional to the skills available within the team. That is, the more highly skilled
  the team, the less need for process
• continuously monitor progress—learning and adapting as required. At regular intervals,
  the team reflects on how to become more effective, then adjusts its behaviour accordingly.