Real time adaptation.
The Project Management Team at CommerceTI recognizes the effectiveness of Agile Development Models – significantly, in relation to adapting in real time to changing realities – and to the changing needs – of our clients. Our clients benefit from the “adaptive” nature of Agile Development – namely, our capacity to provide rapid, continuous delivery of useful software; weekly delivery of operational software; and most importantly, daily mutual communication and cooperation with our clients, allowing us to adapt to even eleventh-hour changes.
Ultimately, we are better able to respond in real time to our client’s needs and changes.
The Agile model that CommerceTI employs is actually part of a family of development processes, not a single approach to software development. This stands in contrast to more static, or “predictive” methods, such as the waterfall model, which is the most predictive of the methods, stepping through requirements capture, analysis, design, coding, and testing – all in a strict, pre-planned sequence. In such a process, progress is generally measured in terms of deliverable artifacts such as requirement specifications, design documents, test plans, and code reviews.
Such processes are effective for long-term projects requiring set direction and adherence to original destination, but have difficulty changing direction. Agile Development models are inherently adaptable, and produce completely developed and tested features every few weeks; additionally, their focus is on empowering people to collaborate and make decisions together quickly and effectively, and facilitate rapid, continuous response to changes.
By continually working with the smallest workable piece of functionality, business value is realized early, while functionality is improved upon and added to throughout the life of the project.
Our Agile models also highlight synergy between developer and client.
CommerceTI’s Development Team is able to successively refine and deliver the end operational software system through daily and weekly feedback with our clients. In addition, our Development Team – through continuous planning, continuous testing, continuous integration, and other forms of continuous evolution – is able to ensure that value is continuing to be maximized throughout the development process, to the benefit of our clients.