Agile Development Practices

Exigen Services has completed more than 200 Agile projects, helping clients reduce time to market, delivering quality software and improving the communications between business and IT stakeholders. Because Agile practices are a part of our overall company culture, our delivery teams are continually focused on delivering business value with the technology programs we create and achieving a high degree of risk mitigation for our clients.

Adapting to evolving business requirements

There are certain realities that exist when businesses source an IT project:

  • Requirements are rarely fully understood before the project begins
  • Users know more precisely what they want – after they see an initial version of the software
  • Business priorities change during the software construction process, often requiring revised project specs

By design, the Agile development method treats change as a normal part of the development cycle and produces rapid results with short, closed-ended project duration. With Agile, we can improve the overall value of the project - without causing slips in planned completion dates.

This disciplined approach of Agile development fosters strong collaboration and alignment among multiple stakeholders, such as business and IT groups who must agree on development priorities. The Exigen Services team works in unison, focusing on maximizing the economic value our clients can realize with the completed project.

Industry-leading Agile expertise

Exigen Services has one of the highest percentages of Agile trained staff in the industry:

  • More than 450 experienced Agile developers and testers
  • 50 Agile Project Managers and Team Leads
  • 55 Scrum Masters certified by Jeff Sutherland
  • More than 600 years of combined experience in Agile

We are not content to maintain this current level of Agile knowledge and experience. In fact, we encourage and support the continuous pursuit of Agile training by our staff.

Global delivery teams based on skill set, not location

Previously, Agile development methodologies and the Scrum project management framework could only be utilized by teams that were working together in a single location – most often a conference room. Exigen Services changed all that by pioneering distributed Agile development and inventing the distributed Scrum project management framework. In fact, we have been credited for some of the most advanced and productive implementations of distributed Agile development to date.

With distributed development, we can populate project teams with individuals who possess the best–fit skill sets and experience for the project, rather than forming a location-based team. Distributed development is known as one of the highest forms of collaboration in any engineering or R&D environment. While the team members may not see each other face to face, they are all working together toward the best possible outcome of the client’s project.