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Agile Development Management

We can deliver significant solutions to you every 2 weeks by Agile Development process. Our medium and enterprise clients can drive their business value ahead with Agile Development and significantly minimize the risk associated with software development. It is an interdependent process where managers and developers work in collaboration incorporating iteration and the continuous feedback to develop releasable software in short time periods.

Our clients have found answers for their questions. Have you?

• Does your project team face irregular business demands and frequent changes in requirement?
• Does your software release roadmap include routine hotfixes and patches for multiple product lines?
• Are you racing with competitors to release new products to the market?
• Do you collect customers’ inputs for future patches, enhancement, or next generation products?
• Do you only have a limited budget for a rather large project?

If you answer yes for one or many of the above questions, Agile development can bring much value to the development process of your organization.

3Nexus has great expertise and a successful track record of assisting various medium and enterprise clients in implementing the Agile process. The method emphasizes working software as the primary measure of progress. A new working release of software may take from 1 to 4 weeks instead of months. The emphasis of Agile development is on obtaining the smallest workable piece of functionality to release a new software at the end of an iteration, hence delivering business value early. Through continuous planning and feedback, re-evaluation of project priorities is done at the end of every iteration for further improvement/addition of functionality throughout the life of the project.

However, for quick and efficient operation of Agile methods, it requires a highly collaborative approach. With rapid development schedule, Agile requires constant communication and interaction between business logic and development teams. The Agile’s fixed schedule and budget require flexibility in scope management. The methods are well applied when 3Nexus and clients understand and enforce the following grounds:

• The culture of the organization must be supportive for negotiation
• People must be trusted
• Team consists of few but more competent people
• Organizations need to have an environment that facilitates rapid communication between team members.

As a method that requires much communication and interaction, Agile sounds in contrast with offshore development. Recognizing both the challenges and the benefits that Agile process can bring to clients, 3Nexus has created a highly functional environment that enables best Agile practices. Clients are well informed and satisfied with every step that we take during the process.

Communication Practices:

• We share guideline, policy, discussion and feedback on intranet content management system.
• We operate with multiple communication channels. Face to face meetings are always encouraged. For remote teams, we use the web conference meeting technologies including Webex, electronic board, and video conference. The technologies allow us to share desktop, presentations, live drawings, and applications to make the process collaborative.
• Our wiki is the best possible way for sharing common information. Lots of information is available with a click of the Search button. In addition to the common wiki site, each team creates its own structure on the wiki.
• We facilitate onsite collaboration and send people to the sites of clients and partners for in-person discussion. Contact visits can help in building trust. These visits facilitates in generating and sustaining healthy professional relationships.
• We hold short war room meeting daily. It helps people review action items, discuss feedbacks and plan for the day.
• We separate team on the basis of functionality. This helps in optimum utilization of human resource based on competency and effective management of the teams.

Development Practices:

• Our iterations are short: 1 to 2 weeks.
• We hold iteration planning meetings and conference. It helps in coordinating everyone in the team.
• We integrate features and components frequently. We do not wait until a component is complete for integration with other. We integrate a small number of methods along the development cycle.
• We monitor the features that are complete and present in the process. We verify passed and failed features by routine daily build and installation. We review future reference features and prioritize them frequently.
• We use mainline development model to allow developers continue with coding while QA perform the testing of the application.

Supportive Technology Demonstration:

Webex Conferencing

Clients and 3Nexus can share monitor control of one another while attending a global conference. We facilitate collaboration with geographically dispersed project team and clients with online meeting capabilities that complements face-to-face meeting; helps to share documents, project plans and interact with people across the world right from the office

Electronic Board

With electronic boards, 3Nexus and clients can host a collaborative system where members of project team can participate and discuss about the project in real time; helps in distributing notes, images and sharing knowledge live; increase communication effectiveness when team members are dispersed in various locations and helps in collective decision making

Knowledge Management System (KMS)

An effective enterprise wiki can help project members add and share knowledge among peer-groups, and make knowledge available for resolving problems instantly. Attractive user interface, preferably WYSIWYG, powerful tools for structuring and searching information and application programming interface (API) for easy integration and extension of features make Knowledge Management System (KMS) highly functional

Customer Relationship Management

We provide direct engineering access or multiple support tiers to assist customers with the best bang for the bucks. We maintain enduring customer relationship with an effective Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system encompassing all the aspects of CRM; share and manage all customer service issues centrally, measure case metrics, responsiveness and customer satisfaction rates; monitor customer resolution issues to ensure highest level of customer satisfaction

Bug Report

An effective enterprise wiki can help project members add and share knowledge among peer-groups, and make knowledge available for resolving problems instantly. Attractive user interface, preferably WYSIWYG, powerful tools for structuring and searching information and application programming interface (API) for easy integration and extension of features make Knowledge Management System (KMS) highly functional

The Agile benefits and success are widely adopted. But the plan-driven approach is still preferred in many situations. For larger and complex projects, Rational Unified Process (RUP) could be an alternative. The 3Nexus team rigorously follows PMI and CMMI models in managing the RUP development and has a successful track in delivering complex releases. For more information on RUP Development Management, please click here.