What is Agile?
One of the aspects that makes our services so unique is our usage of and training in Agile Development methodologies. At the risk of cannibalizing our own income…
You can either request an Agile Development Seminar or you could do the research yourself. The U.S. government has done a nice job of compiling a compendium of information about Agile Development at The Data & Analysis Center for Software.
Learning and doing are two separate issues. Since the stickiness of knowledge is about a 2% rate over 2 weeks from just reading/being exposed to knowledge, practice is critical. Skip the seminar and read up on Agile, and then focus more on knowledge transfer for your team through embedded programming. If you want your teams to be real-world smart instead of book smart, then side-by-side experience with an expert rather than listening to an expert behind a podium may be the way to go.
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October 4th, 2007 at 10:19 am
[…] For an organization which is not delivering the intended results to its customers, revising and revamping the processes is a good thing. I by no means wish to say that I do not believe in process. Process, within reasonable limits, is good. We are proponents of Agile Development processes. With a complete lack of process, a project will end up with variable timelines, bugs, few (if any) test, and, most likely, a product that suits the developer’s needs rather than the customer’s needs. […]