CAMO Agile Process
Agile is an iterative and incremental approach to software development performed in a highly collaborative manner by self-organizing teams with “just enough” ceremony that produces high quality software in a cost effective and timely manner to meet the changing needs of its stakeholders
We understand the challenges of outsourcing –
Changing needs
Distributed team handling requirements management, planning and work distribution
Right infrastructure
Cultural differences
Communication and collaboration, risk mitigation, business continuity
CAMO’s Distributed Agile is a development methodology that adheres to the principles of Agile Development Methodologies (ADM) like SCRUM, KANBAN(and others) and emphasizes the use of tools and metrics to successfully collaborate and measure productivity in a globally distributed development environment. In addition to enhancing the speed and agility, Distributed Agile brings in scalability and predictability to quality and product release based on tool-based measurement and management of metrics. Distributed Agile powers CAMO delivery process enabling us to focus on delivering the highest business value to customers in the shortest time.
CAMO’s Distributed Agile Process
Requirements
Capturing software and associated requirements, prioritizing and tracking meticulously
Implementing best practices – prototyping, writing usage stories, planning for performance
Development and Testing
Agile Software Development – time-boxed iterations, incremental, continuously verify for quality, get regular feedbacks from customer and extensive use of automation for improved efficiency
Code quality / Refactoring – continuous code review, no single owner of code
Testing – test driven development
Planning, Project Management & Risk Management
Our experience in product migration (or re-platforming) spans across:
Planning for engagement initiation, release, sprint with active coordination between onsite /offshore team
roject management – manage requirements, people, risks, metrics collection to measure performance, introspect, review and implement learning
Tracking, Monitoring and measuring progress
Risk Management – Identify risks, define mitigation plan
Infrastructure, Collaboration and Communication
Infrastructure – setting different environments – development, testing, staging, VPN; availability of right tools – development, build, test, project management
Collaboration – helps eliminate the challenges arising due to geographically dispersed teams; techniques used – daily meetings / con-calls at both the organization as well as local levels; integrated communication and collaboration tools that help build a common visualization of the product – track project artifacts, use common source control and employ continuous integration
Scalability
Highly scalable for large, complex projects as it merges the best practices of agile development approaches with Proteans process discipline and project management framework
Management Reviews
Conduct regular view of engagement progress by key stakeholders for tactical and strategic progress
Hold regular meetings to discuss on continual improvement, progress and review of business goals and objectives
Continual Improvement
We emphasise on continual improvement and focus on metrics to capture vital metrics that drive engineering decisions.
Benefits to software product companies
Accelerates the time-to-market through iterative releases of the working software while retaining process discipline and metrics orientation required for large, complex projects
Reduces engineering costs by enabling agile development across globally distributed teams
Enhances flexibility and scalability for product releases even while retaining the best practices of agile development
Focuses purely on the business value delivered
Improves predictability, transparency and reduces risk
