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Development Methodology
Managing complex software development projects is about efficient utilization of resources, risk management, accurate estimation of budgets and timelines, experienced selection of appropriate technologies, and scheduling feature development to meet time-to-market requirements. Client requirements are everything at MindGenies. Hence we have our a Client-driven Iterative Development Methodology which takes care of the Client Requirements as well as keeping a strong check on various other Quality and Risk issues.
Iterative Development is an approach to building software (or anything) in which the overall lifecycle is composed of several iterations in sequence. Each iteration is a self-contained mini-project composed of activities such as requirements analysis, design, programming, and test. The goal for the end of an iteration is an iteration release, a stable, integrated and tested partially complete system. Although an iteration can in theory be only for clean-up or performance tuning, usually the partial system grows incrementally with new features, iteration by iteration; in other words, incremental development. The concept of growing a system via iterations has been called Iterative and Incremental Development (IID), although simply "iterative development" is common. In this era, most development methods are IID methods.
Our orientation is towards Client-driven Iterative and Incremental Development model which implies that the choice of features for the next iteration comes from the client-whatever they perceive as the highest business value to them. In this way, the client steers the project, iteration by iteration, requesting the features that they currently think are most valuable. Note that the customer adaptively plans the choice for the next iteration, shortly before it starts, based on their latest insight, rather than speculatively at the start of the project. The customer has ongoing control and choice, as fresh information arises At MindGenies most projects have at least three iterations before a final public release. In modern iterative methods, the recommended length of an iteration is between one and six weeks. Each iteration includes production-quality programming, not just requirements analysis, for example. And the software resulting from each iteration is not a prototype or proof of concept, but a subset of the final system.
Since MindGenies USP is Client Orientation we bring together business area people (users) and IT (Information Technology) professionals in a highly focused workshop (we call them GenieShops!). The advantage of this approach is that it leads to a dramatic shortening of the time it takes to complete a project. It also improves the quality of the final product by focusing on the up-front portion of the development lifecycle, thus reducing the likelihood of errors that are expensive to correct later on.
- GenieShops are
- Very focused
- Conducted in a dedicated environment
- Quickly drive major requirements and interface "look & feel"
- Participants typically include:
- Facilitator - facilitates discussions, enforces rules
- End users - 3 to 5, attend all sessions
- Developers - 2 or 3, question for clarity
- Tie Breaker - Senior manager. Breaks end user ties, usually doesn´t attend
- Observers - 2 or 3, do not speak
- Subject Matter Experts - limited number for understanding business & technology
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