Agile Software Development

Best Practices: How To Scale Agile

White Paper: Belatrix

Best Practices: How To Scale Agile Projects have become more diverse and requirements are constantly changing. Agile management offers flexibility, adaption and collaboration when applied to a particular process or team. Developing new products takes time. But, by creating an agile organization, development costs and time to market can be reduced to a greater extent. Agility has always been an essential part of creating useable software. However, many aspects of agile can be extended into other parts of an organization. So, what are the challenges with scaling agile and how do you do it? In this paper, we hope to provide some of the answers to these questions. We also show you how organizations can achieve their business goals through agile transformation. Download the guide now to discover: Defining and understanding Agile at all levels What are the challenges with scaling Agile? What organizational process change is required to intrinsically adopt Agile? What is the best way to become suitably agile?

AGILE TESTING:Insight from the Next Generation Testing roundtable on Agile Testing

White Paper: Nisum

Agile testing and development is growing in popularity and smart QA/testing teams keep pace with current development trends. Implementing Test Automation in Agile Environments is quite challenging in the present scenario. This whitepaper is based on a round table discussion on Agile Testing. It discusses about maintaining and reviewing automated tests in agile Environments and different agile testing methodologies. Key Takeaways from this whitepaper: Enterprise Agile: How can you manage a project that has multiple Agile delivery teams? Test Automation in Agile: How can you get valuable tests automated during a sprint? Test Estimation: How can developers and testers effectively estimate one another’s’ stories? Test Management: Role of the Test Manager in Agile

The Business Need for Agile Software and How You Can Achieve it

White Paper: Infuse Consulting Limited

Agile software development focuses on rapid and flexible applications development, testing often, and delivering functional bits of them as soon as they’re ready. Companies that have totally adopted Agile methodology for their projects have definitely seen measurable improvements in this time of market. This white paper looks into few broader themes impacting enterprises in the effective Agile Software development while helping companies to adopt agile methodology. It also addresses question like: What are the significant challenges enterprises face in the process of adopting Agile software development? How to Increase the effectiveness of Agile software development? How organization’s can improve their Return on Investment with implementing an agile approach to software development and testing? Why agile businesses need Agile software development? Major reasons why companies decide to adopt agile? How can companies become more Agile by applying right set of Agile business concepts? Businesses need to be Agile in order to survive in today’s economic climate where technology is changing rapidly, where competition is fierce and where time to market is critical.

How to Implement Agile Development Methodology?

White Paper: Gallop Solutions

Implementing an Agile development methodology successfully requires the clear understanding of the consequences of agile approaches. Loose implementation of agile methodology can hold you back in reaping the benefits of agile implementation. Why agile development methodology? What are the Benefits of Agile Methodology? Agile methodology has an impressive track of record in delivering success to large companies in developing innovative products and services. Implementing Agile methodology will have some benefits such as cost control, flexibility, building the right product and generates high revenue. Why do we need agile software development? Agile software development in the true spirit and rigor would yield into the right results and help in reaping the benefits. Agile implementation leads to successful completion of project, bringing great justice to the organization in the long run. Agile or Fragile? Use or Abuse? Indeed time for a check! According to a recent survey 49% of agile projects are not being done on time or have over planned budget, while 9% of the projects are total failures. Implications of loosely implementing Agile is that as an organization you are definitely not reaping the benefits of Agile implementation in terms of reduced time to market, reduced development cost, and so on. Download this white paper to find whether Agile is indeed being implemented properly and in the true spirit, or as per their convenient method under the wrapper of Agile?

Test Automation Framework: A Vanilla Implementation

White Paper: AFOUR TECHNOLOGIES

Vanilla test automation framework for agile development and testing has taken an importance in automation industry as it provides a clean, time-tested, well-defined and convention-over-configuration enabled test automation framework to reduce the learning time needed for its understanding. The new vanilla web app development has helped firms to overcome the challenges in writing and maintaining good test automation frameworks. This whitepaper is recommended for web application test automation engineers and automation teams that depend on the output and efficiency of their test automation to make important decisions. The whitepaper details the Vanilla implementation approach for test automation framework, which caters to testing a majority of requirements. Download this free whitepaper to learn more about what the common problems with traditional test automation framework are. What are the benefits of vanilla automation framework? This whitepaper enlists the following points: Basic components that test engineers need to create automated test scripts New aspects for development about the little things inside a test automation framework Right web service automation testing framework Automation testing framework design and implementation Vanilla test automation framework to support software testing Reduce cost and save time through automation testing framework design and implementation

Streamlining Magento Development Flow with AJA

White Paper: Vaimo

Using AJA to streamline the Magento development flow automates the entire workflow from Development to Production. Magento is a complex system, and without appropriate tooling, principles and audit trails, managing deployments to different environments can be cumbersome. AJA supports the Magento application not only during development, but along its entire lifecycle. How to use AJA in keeping the Magento system secure? This insightful whitepaper outlines: Application of AJA in Magento Development. Key design principles in AJA. Advantages of using AJA for Magento. Issues and challenges in Magento development. Download this whitepaper on Magento Development which looks into the limitations of manual deployments, common failures, and the benefits of using AJA for the entire Magento Development Lifecycle.

Agile Models for Global Teams

White Paper: Infuse Consulting Limited

Although Agile processes are being used increasingly in many software development environments, some enterprises still haven’t adopted Agile because of various concerns, especially about using it with distributed teams. How can distributed Agile software solutions help you improve the productivity of teams with globally distributed members? This white paper features five models targeted at small or enterprise companies seeking to implement Agile for globally distributed teams at any level of Agile maturity. It mainly focuses on: What are the steps invoved in the creation of a distributed Agile team? How to structure global teams? What are the benefits of using distributed Agile? What are the most common challenges faced by teams using distributed Agile? Also, it looks into the advantages, challenges and best practices of five engagement models to use with distributed Agile teams focusing on the three dimensional approach of people, process and tools used to implement these models.