Infotech Global, Inc. (IGI) is a recognized leader in offshore Agile development. We work with our clients worldwide to deliver onshore, offshore and dual-shore Agile development projects. The IGI Agile Development Services team consists of experienced Agile developers, testers and Certified Scrum Masters experienced in applying Agile methods to projects in multiple business domains.

Our in-depth experience has produced a collection of proven project management and technical best practices that help IGI and our clients avoid the most common risks with Agile. We have a wealth of experience with making Agile development work using flexible combinations of local, distributed, offshore and dual-shore team structures. We know how to achieve the desired results and benefits of Agile methods, even with project team members working remotely individually and in teams in multiple locations.

IGI being an active member in Agile Alliance enables us to participate and contribute to this methodology, its practices and its implementation and in the agile community at large.

Agile Methods Consulting Services

In addition to providing application development and testing services using Agile methods, IGI can provide Agile methods consulting services. We can transfer the skills which enable our clients to take their own development organizations Agile for higher productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. IGI can also work with clients already experienced in Agile methods, to conduct independent project reviews and to help clients implement project management best practices which provide for continuous improvement.

IGI provides consultation for Transitioning existing projects to follow Agile methodology and implement an onshore – offshore self organizing team model to execute these initiatives.

Principles of Agile Development:

Principles of Agile Development as presented by Agile thought leaders in the Agile Manifesto and are refined and fine tuned base on our experiences.

• The best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from small, self-organizing teams of highly experienced developers.
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhance agility.
• Welcome changing requirements, even late in development, to harness change for the client's competitive advantage.
• Business people and developers work together daily throughout the project (to define and refine requirements, set and adjust priorities based on ROI vs. risks, define test criteria, test results)
• Satisfy the client through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
• Deliver working software frequently (Frequent, releasable development iterations with time boxed deliverables).
• Working software is the primary measure of progress.
• Face-to-face conversation is most efficient and effective method of conveying information. (IGI has developed best practices to deal with distributed and offshore team communications and for cross team collaboration through continuous integration)
• Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential
• At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts accordingly

Key Benefits of Agile Methods:

A 'common sense' way of working, Agile prescribe a set of values, practices, and rules in a development framework that can be quickly implemented and repeated. Our clients adopting this innovative approach have achieved significant business benefits including:

• Improved Business Value as a result of higher levels of business buy-in, higher business involvement, clearer alignment of functionality to business requirements, higher levels of adoption, and better ROI.

• Reduced Delivery Risk as a result of higher levels of business buy-in, higher business involvement, clearer alignment of functionality to business requirements, higher levels of adoption, and better ROI.

• Improved Quality agile approaches, contrary to popular understanding actually introduce much higher levels of development discipline through best practices such as automated unit testing, continuous integration and refactoring. This leads to higher levels of delivery quality, confidence and lower levels of Total Cost Ownership.

• Greater Staff Retention & Morale agile approaches, contrary to popular understanding actually introduce much higher levels of development discipline through best practices such as automated unit testing, continuous integration and refactoring. This leads to higher levels of delivery quality, confidence and lower levels of Total Cost Ownership.

• A 'win-win-win' scenario where the project teams are empowered and motivated, the users are provided solutions that they want, and the business is enjoying rapid ROI with reduced risk.