Agile Software Development

Agile Consulting Services | MICROEXCEL Inc.

Microexcel is a leading software development company based in USA & INDIA. We help large-scale organizations, small-to-medium businesses and start-ups with mobile, web and software development.

Agile software development methodology is a process by which a project is managed by breaking it up into multiple stages. It involves constant collaboration with stakeholders along with iterations and continuous improvement at every stage. Unlike the Waterfall model, in Agile Software Development model both development and testing activities are concurrent.

Agile’s four main values are:

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Agile software development methodology frameworks include Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), and Adaptive Project Framework (APF).

How Agile Works

Agile software development principles and practices follows an iterative approach towards software development. It consists of a number of small cycles called sprints. Each sprint is a mini project and comprises design, development, implementation, testing, and deployment stages.

By the end of each sprint, a product increment is delivered with new features added. With the validation of features done early in the development, the chances of delivering a potential product failure are significantly lower in Agile Software Development model.

Why Choose Microexcel for Agile Development Services?

Our Agile development services provide you the following benefits:

High-value features developed and delivered more quickly with short cycles
Reduced time-to-market due to decreased overhead and increased efficiency
Reduced non-productive work like writing specifications or other artefacts
Easier planning and tracking
High visibility into the state of the project on a daily basis.

How does Microexcel help companies understand the technicalities of Agile development?

Microexcel’s Agile services help companies to identify and adopt the right Agile approach. We ensure that our clients are always prepared to deal with business unpredictability.

Our Agile Software Development model utilizes a mixed blend of Agile, Scrum and lean practices and help in fostering a high quality, iterative and sprint-based approach to developing software.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How Microexcel use Agile?

Microexcel builds agile mindset working with customer’s agile teams. We build agile practices into teams and also bring about Enterprise Agile Transformation to our customer’s organizations. Firstly, we understand customer’s organizational culture and mesh it with agile mindset. We bring shared understanding of agile in customer organization to deliver real benefit to our customers.

What Is Enterprise Agile Transformation?

Enterprise Agile is identifying, customer’s organizational culture and making a widespread organizational change to use an Agile approach to tackle bigger challenges. Enterprise Agile Transformation is creating a mindset in customer’s organization “of how they should think about their work”. It’s reworking customer’s organization culture based on the guidance and practices originally created for software development.

What are all the enterprise agile frameworks we (Microexcel) follow?

At Microexcel we typically practice and follow Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). We use this framework throughout our organization culture and also during software products development life cycle. We have experienced success and positive results with this framework. We have more experience in SAFe, but we could assist our customer’s in other frameworks as well.

What is Agile Software Development with scrum?

Agile Software Development with scrum uses a structured framework for solution design and development. Scrum is a lightweight process framework that is widely used in Agile Software development lifecycle and confirms with the manifesto for agile software development.

What is the manifesto for agile software development?

The manifesto for Agile Software development has four primary values which can be summarized as below.

Individuals and interactions when compared to processes and tools
Working software when compared to comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration when compared to contract negotiation
Responding to change when compared to following a plan

All the popular tools used in Agile software development are built on the above manifesto.

What are the popular tools used in agile software development?

The popular tools used in agile software development are Jenkins, Travis CI, Codeship and Circle CI. They all form an essential part of the continuous integration in Agile Software Development Life Cycle.

What is the Agile Software Development Life Cycle?

The Agile Software Development Life Cycle is a development process that focusses on collaboration between design and requirements, and creating an iterative cycle of development called as individual sprints. Agile Software Development with Scrum and Kanban follows the lifecycle.

Case Studies / Microexcel’s Agile development Projects:

UAS TMSevolution is a powerful Trip Management System that was developed using Agile software development principles and practices and gives real-time access to mission critical information about your solution requests with UAS on a web-based mobile application, anywhere and anytime.

JZHC is a global leader on emissions control and a pioneer in modern Smart Combustion™ solutions and implements the Agile software development process. They have more installed equipment than any other manufacturer in the industry. Their research and development facilities make up the largest testing complex of its kind, while their worldwide service organization is the largest, most technically advanced team of its kind. The John Zink Institute℠ is recognized industry wide as a leader in real-world training.

Over a decade ago we were helping dental practices get better through a combination of our very early proprietary software and lots of one-on-one consulting and training. Even back then our software made sense of all the data hidden inside the PMS. It tracked everything and gave practices an eye-opening, 100% transparent look at what was really going on. With an Agile software development methodology, suddenly practices had real-time data they could use to make decisions. We got rid of guesswork and dentists and office managers really loved it.

Conclusion

Microexcel helps customers in understanding the technicalities of Agile software development principles and practices and assists them in transitioning to a timely, quick, and well-planned Agile implementation. This would in turn enable them to drive their business growth.

Contact our sales representative at info@microexcel.com or call us 201-866-6789 to outsource your Agile development services.