Accelerated Software Delivery

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Forrester notes how Agile delivers "improvements in time-to-benefits, overall quality and efficiency, team morale, the relationship between IT and business staff and responsiveness to change".

Our Accelerated Software Delivery approach delivers working software iteratively over very short timeframes. Typically, each iteration - containing an agreed set of functionality - delivers a production-ready, deployable release in around four weeks.

We start with a scoping exercise, typically lasting only a few days, without any charge or obligation to continue afterwards. The output from this activity is a project initiation document, containing a description of the project, a summary of what is in and out of scope, a prioritized list of key functionality required, the likely team structure, a list of stakeholders, any issues or risks already identified, and a plan for the next activity.

During this scoping exercise we check the suitability of Agile for the project. (If we have doubts that Agile is the right approach, we will say so, and explain why - which is reassuring if you are not 100% sure that Agile is right for your organisation.)

You are free to use the project initiation document as you see fit. It is obviously our hope that you will choose to continue working with us on the remainder of the project.

At this point in the project the project team is assigned and work starts on the requirements gathering, design, coding, testing and delivery of the first iteration. The scope of this iteration is set with the consent of your key business users.

Reducing Risk

We place a very high degree of confidence in our ability to develop and deliver solutions using our Accelerated Software Delivery approach.

Many Agile software development companies will only undertake Agile projects on a 'time & materials' basis. We understand that this may be a difficult proposition for customers to accept as it would appear that the customer is taking all of the commercial risk.

We also recognize that some potential customers will naturally be apprehensive when engaging with any new supplier on a software development project. We place such a high degree of confidence in our approach and in our ability to deliver to customers' satisfaction that we commit to undertake the first iteration of every new Agile project at low cost.

We do this to demonstrate that we are prepared to take an appropriate level of risk in line with our commitment to deliver.

For the majority of projects, it is the case that the first iteration - a working, deployable, production quality subset of key functionality - can be delivered in 4 weeks elapsed at a cost of less than £5,000.

Beyond this first iteration, if required we will also agree with you a fixed price for the delivery of functionality in each subsequent iteration.

We believe that this offers customer an extremely low-risk, low-cost introduction to Agile and an opportunity to realize the benefits of developing applications using an Agile approach.

To find out more about Accelerated Software Delivery, please call Nick Hill on 01753 626625 or email nhill@dbgroup.co.uk

Click here to download our Accelerated Software Delivery brochure.