Category - Project Management

Many software development projects are implemented with Agile methodologies. The right use of Agile principles leads projects to the goals. If you are a customer of a software development project, and you are suggested to work in Agile, this article is for you. We will list the essentials to prepare for the work with an Agile development team.

To make Agile work for your goals is the mutual task for a prepared customer and a mature team. Both the team and you have to be prepared to the Agile approach if you did not work this way before or if you did but did not get significant results.

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In my previous post I told you about Scrum advantages. But there are a lot of issues when people try to use Scrum on their projects. Scrum is ideal when a company is developing a product for itself, when there are no outsourcing, deadlines and distributed teams. But when you try to use Scrum with outsourced development, things are getting more and more complicated. So, the Project Manager should keep in mind that there might be some false hopes of Scrum (this topic is covered here).

I have a half dozen projects in my portfolio, and today I will share my experience of Scrum in real life with you.
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You already know that offshore software development brings the following benefits:

• Cost reduction when working with competitive labor markets;
• Unlimited access to highly specialized professionals;
• Maximizing the efficiency of time zone differences – less production down time.

Together with that, it brings certain challenges you should be aware of:

• The need for constant management and control (in particular, time and budget);
• Cultural differences (which were covered in one of our previous articles);
• Lack of face-to-face contact.

Let’s talk about control in more depth.
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