In recent years, high-tech industry, in order to respond to rapid technological and product upgrades iterative, agile development process is becoming more and more enterprises choose. Companies hope that through agile development model, based on their linear development, to obtain non-linear innovation and competitive advantage.
Declaration of agile development is to redefine the development process:
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan
Agile development model of practice is not easy. The first is the concept of transformation and organizational change team, and these were not enough, with special emphasis on communication efficient, quick and agile in an orderly process. To do so, you also need a collaborative platform.
Agile development processes in many different variations, but its main processes, basically follow the following processes:
For the implementation of these processes,
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have provided strong support tool.
1. Demand Management: Support tool Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog management.
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professional Agile requirements management template that allows to easily define Scrum Team Epic, Requirement User Story and more details and to organize traceability between requirements at all levels. Reuse requirements, branch, online collaborative writing and online assessment, so that communication is no longer blind spot between the teams, agile development process to avoid the problem in the ever-present management out of control.
Although the document does not emphasize agile development, but sometimes, your team still needs to work together with external organizations, iterative update on the Product Backlog.
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unique needs of online document management tool WIKI, demand data collection and document management in one, so maintenance requirements document is no longer a team, "agile" stumbling block.
2. Program Management: support rapid iteration Sprint Program Management
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task management module, its original intention is to agile development and design, emphasizing Sprint cycle of the software in accordance with the flexibility to define project structure, each of the Sprint Sprint plan (Iteration) define the project Backlog.
Task Kanban agile development process commonly used tools, systems built Kanban management tool that provides each Sprint plan (Iteration) and large billboards plan version (Version Program).
Of course, control of the implementation of the project, earned value curve, burndown, Issue reports, statistical changes, test reports and other tools are essential.
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have been enough for users to preset project Dashboard, then this is not enough,
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provide various reports Widget, users can make fast, free, WYSIWYG configure reports they need. Dashboard its fully open source architecture, while providing maximum freedom for the users of the depth of customization.
3. Test Management: Support for closed-loop testing and continuous integration and continuous deployment
Finally, in the test session, the most basic test case definition, traceability, test execution and recording the results, initiate and track test questions can not be overemphasized. In pursuit of "agile" development process, continuous integration and continuous deployment is essential plug-ins, CORNERSTONE CI & CD provided with various tools and platform interface, so agile software development to form a closed-loop traceability.
In the process of agile transformation, introduced
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so agile collaboration platform, agile process will be more efficient and orderly way, restructuring and corporate landing agile methods, there will be no so much uncertainty.
