Sometimes a client asks us why we use a distributed Agile model for our software development services. Our answer is simple. Distributed Agile gives us the tools we need to be able to offer our clients software development that is expertly planned and accurately delivered – all at an optimal business value.
The distributed Agile process starts by consulting with the product owner (the client) as the team assigned to the project begins dividing up the work into functional increments. These increments are known as “user stories” and each one helps to create a simplified description of a requirement which will contribute to the overall product. Your team will consist of a small group of individuals who are committed to the project from start to finish. Another important component that makes distributed Agile methodologies in software development so successful is the “daily standup” or meeting. Typically done at a set time each day, it brings everyone up to date allowing the team to share completed tasks and describe any obstacles that are impeding progress. Iterative development is also a key practice in the Agile process. This is the step that breaks down software development into smaller units with code designed and developed to be revisited and tested in repeated cycles. Incremental development ensures that “each successive version of the product is usable, and each builds upon the previous version by adding user-visible functionality.” Once a product is finished or at a certain designated point in a project, the entire team will spend time evaluating and analyzing key events. At Velocity Partners our team includes experienced engineers and consultants as well as leaders in Agile software development. We have been successfully using distributed Agile methodologies since our firm began in 2004 and offer companies an excellent ROI. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore (Western hemisphere) software development services using a distributed Agile model that offers outstanding planning, accurate delivery and optimal business value. Our team is comprised of top Agile experts, consultants, and engineers who believe in not only meeting but exceeding our customers’ expectations. For more information about our cost-effective software development services, please see our website. Source: agilealliance.org/agile101/
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Since Velocity Partners was founded as a spinoff of an Agile training company, our team consists of several recognized thought leaders in Agile software development. This has resulted in distributed Agile being a part of our DNA, and we are proud to report that we have successfully completed hundreds of projects for some of the biggest names in business using the distributed Agile model.
We are so committed to the process that we are regular contributors at Agile conferences as well as run our own company’s Agile seminar series, of which some of the materials we make available to the public. In fact one of our most prolific authors of Agile content is VP’s Principal Agile Evangelist, Bill DeVoe. Bill’s extensive experience includes 25 years as a developer and 17 years in Agile helping IT teams face Agile challenges and providing strategies to overcome them. His background includes working as a developer, manager, product owner, coach, and Agile evangelist. He also speaks at a variety of conferences and works with our clients on agile practices. Along with all of the professional Blogs by Bill Devoe, our website also has a selection of Agile resources that includes videos, slideshows, and PDFs available to download. One example of a helpful video is the “Scrum Mastery Coaching Clinic.” To download the material we simply ask that you join our community and provide your name, email address, job title and company. All of the materials on our website should be considered for non-commercial, personal use copies only and not distributed beyond the initial download. If you wish to distribute VP’s Agile resource materials, we ask that you have intended individuals join our mailing list or get our permission first. Also if you wish to use our materials in your own work, please ask for permission as well as give us full attribution. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore (Western hemisphere) software development services using a distributed Agile model that offers outstanding planning, accurate delivery and optimal business value. Our team is comprised of top Agile experts, consultants, and engineers who believe in not only meeting but exceeding our customers’ expectations. Please see our website to learn more about our cost-effective software development services. Velocity Partners offers a cost-effective way to increase your front-end development capacity and speed time-to-launch without foregoing any quality by taking advantage of our UX-Flex program. Designed to allow you to better balance multiple projects and manage variable workloads, it is the perfect solution for developing the user experience for online business systems, creating a client’s website, or standing up web portal properties.
The program provides you with a highly collaborative environment including a project manager and development team that is ready to assist you with ongoing challenges and to help you manage spikes with your front-end development load. They also bring a range of technical expertise including HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, jQuery, and Adobe Photoshop slicing along with account management for oversight, coordination and risk mitigation. Getting the support of our UX-Flex program lets you scale up or down according to your needs and we can provide services on a full-time or part-time basis. Another benefit to the VP program is our software development services are nearshore not offshore. Since our Latin American delivery centers are in a compatible time zone as our U.S. customers, it facilitates real-time communication during prime business hours. Furthermore, our teams have excellent English language skills and our employee tenure is above industry average so you will have the opportunity to build relationships with your team. Please visit our website for more information regarding Velocity Partners’ UX-Flex program and all of our other software development services. We are proud to be able to provide our clients with such high quality services in the most cost-effective manner. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore (Western hemisphere) software development services using a distributed Agile model that offers outstanding planning, accurate delivery and optimal business value. Our team is comprised of top Agile experts, consultants, and engineers who believe in not only meeting but exceeding our customers’ expectations. Contact us to learn more about how a distributed Agile model provides high-quality software development. Ever since we opened our doors, Velocity Partners has invited clients to visit our Latin America delivery centers to experience firsthand our professional operations as well as to strengthen connections with their team. In fact time and time again, we have seen numerous ways that face to face interactions positively impact client/VP relationships.
For example just last month, we had the new management team from Polycom, a leader in HD video conferencing, voice conferencing & telepresence, visit our offices in Montevideo, Uruguay. The trip was a way to not only express appreciation to their team but to get to know them better. It also presented the opportunity to start planning for future projects. After several meetings, the team decided on the most effective work methods, the Agile processes to implement, and began Sprint 1 after determining to move ahead with Scrum. The Polycom group left a week later, confident with their team and a promise to return. In April we were pleased to welcome the Kinnser team to our Rosario, Argentina office. Kinnser’s software, which is as easy to use as it was powerful, is the most widely used software in home health care. The Director of DevOps, Brian Berger said of the visit, “I want to thank Velocity’s Kinnser teams, and Velocity’s Rosario office for the hospitality and initiative shown during our recent visit. I appreciated the opportunity to share challenges and successes directly with Kinnser’s teams and with other Velocity teams to better understand how we can partner to quickly build superior products with a higher degree of customer and employee satisfaction.” He added that he looks forward to building upon the partnership. We invite all of our clients to visit our Latin American offices to forge stronger relationships with their teams as well as to see our operations up close. Keep in mind that we build each team to specifications, including technical expertise and business domain. At Velocity Partners we expertly deliver nearshore (Western hemisphere) software development services using a distributed Agile model for outstanding planning, accurate delivery and optimal business value. Our team is comprised of top Agile experts, consultants, and engineers who believe in not only meeting but exceeding our customers’ expectations. For more information, please see our website. Velocity Partners offshore software development company is pleased to annouce that our Agile Evangelist, Bill DeVoe, spoke at this year’s Big Apple Scrum Day (BASD) that took place in New York City on May 1st. The one day community conference focused on Scrum/Agile principles and practices and shared knowledge so participants could discover new practices and learn from their peers.
Bill DeVoe’s speech at the workshop was titled Agile Transformation Beyond the Team. In his discussion, Bill addressed the fact that “as change agents, we’re adept at changing IT teams but we experience resistance when talking to HR and Finance.” He explained how he has successfully engaged HR and Finance teams to support agile transformations in the enterprise. Bill provided points and practical actions that participants could use to immediately make changes and transformations beyond their IT teams. Bill has lots of experience in these areas as for the last few years, he was instrumental in helping large health care and financial companies with Agile trasformations. He witnessed first-hand the challenges the organizations faced in adopting Agile. Another speaker well-known to us at VP was Bob Galen, whose session was entitled Product Owners – Increasing your Situational Awareness. He discussed how product owners encounter challenging situations including conversations, negotiations, and decisions every day but that much of the role’s focus is towards stories and backlogs. His session required interaction from participants and included practicing the best way to handle a myraid of these types of situations. Please visit Velocity Partners’ website to see more from Bill in terms of interesting and very informative blogs on Agile and Scrum practices. Also use our contact form so we can show you how our cost-effective, highly talented Agile offshore development team can provide solutions for your business. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore (Western hemisphere) software development services using a distributed Agile model that offers outstanding planning, accurate delivery and optimal business value. Our team is comprised of top Agile experts, consultants, and engineers who believe in not only meeting but exceeding our customers’ expectations. Please see our website to learn more about our cost-effective software development services. At Velocity Partners offshore software development company, we recognize our employees are key to our success, and when you choose our firm, you will benefit by having some of the most talented individuals in the field working on your team. Once you contact us regarding a project, our first step is to listen to your needs and to ask lots of questions. By undertaking this as a collaborative effort, we work closely with you and your team to create the most cost-effective solutions.
We have been in business since 2004, and over the years we have successfully completed hundreds of projects for companies of all sizes. When we first opened our firm, we debated on the best way to do business and determined that nearshore delivery centers offered clients not only exceptional products but a valuable return on their investment. We choose Latin America as home to our nearshore delivery centers for several reasons including the expediency of operating our software development services in a Western hemisphere time zone rather than the Eastern hemisphere. Latin America was an ideal choice for VP as it also has advanced technology centers as well as a large pool of talented individuals. In addition as our employee tenure is above industry average, it offers continuity in our teams and helps to facilitate an excellent end result. All in all, we are pleased to say our instincts served us well as our centers have proven to be efficient, effective business settings and offer clients the opportunity to be on the receiving end of highly competitive, valuable services. By using distributed Agile and Scrum methodologies for our software development, we minimize the impact of distribution and provide clients with excellent planning, accurate distribution and optimal value. See our website to learn more. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore (Western hemisphere) software development services using a distributed Agile model that offers outstanding planning, accurate delivery and optimal business value. Our team is comprised of top Agile experts, consultants, and engineers who believe in not only meeting but exceeding our customers’ expectations. For more information about our cost-effective Agile offshore development services, please see our website. At Velocity Partners offshore software development company we provide cost-effective and highly valuable software outsourcing solutions that result in productivity and quality improvements for our clients but you don’t have to just take our work for it. Current and past customers from a broad range of businesses and industries are glad to speak up regarding their satisfaction with our firm.
A spokesperson from our client, Latham, a leading manufacturer of inground residential swimming pools and components in North America, relays their satisfaction regarding the more than 18 months they worked with Velocity. They state, “Your team did incredible work for us and got us out of a very deep hole that we had with our original Hybris implementation.” Continuing, their spokesperson relates that the team was a pleasure to work with and Latham will certainly use VP’s services in the future. They end by saying, “you have a great reputation here at Latham and our IT department will certainly reach out as new projects appear requiring Java or Hybris experience.” G2 Web Service explains they were continually impressed with the initiative, great questions, and exceptional patience their Velocity Partner’s team demonstrated while working with the G2 team. Another client, Bluefly, which is a leading online retailer of designer brands, explains that we “provided excellent work and together helped the company to reach by far their most important accomplishments in the company’s history.” Since 2004, we have helped companies scale their business by extending their existing teams, or adding additional development capacity within their organization to cost-effectively develop the best final product. Our team consists of some of the most talented software developers, consultants and Agile and Scrum experts in the field and we are proud of our excellent reputation. Corporations both big and small trust Velocity Partners when they need software development services. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore (Western hemisphere) software development services using a distributed Agile model that offers outstanding planning, accurate delivery and optimal business value. Our team is comprised of top Agile experts, consultants, and engineers who believe in not only meeting but exceeding our customers’ expectations. For more information about our cost-effective Agile offshore development services, please see our website. Velocity Partners offshore software development company has over a decade of experience helping companies in the gas and oil industry to create the type of software development they need to keep pace with today’s digitally evolving systems. From consumer information management and data analytics, to pipeline transportation, right through to optimization and distribution, all of these various elements demand highly effective, agile software solutions.
With ongoing commitments with some of the industry’s top companies, it has allowed us to develop a specific domain expertise in both oil and gas sectors. Furthermore, our nearshore delivery centers are located in Latin American countries that have long histories of oil and gas production, and have helped to provide us with both the experience and resources to develop quality software at a much lower cost. We have experience in providing organizations with software that gives them the ability to not only track and manage daily mission-critical operations but to also interface with their customer base and providers. Our team specializes in developing software that includes the cloud or on-premise solutions as well as innovative SaaS (Software as a Service). Also you will appreciate how much easier it is to communicate with a nearshore software development team on your project than with traditional Eastern hemisphere developers as you are all on a similar time zone. In addition since our teams bring broad industry knowledge based on real projects in-country, it will result in a better final product. We encourage you visit our website and to contact Velocity Partners for more information on the advantages of outsourcing a customized energy software solution. At Velocity Partners we expertly deliver nearshore (Western hemisphere) software development services using a distributed Agile model for outstanding planning, accurate delivery and optimal business value. Our team is comprised of top Agile experts, consultants, and engineers who believe in not only meeting but exceeding our customers’ expectations. For more information, please see our website. Velocity Partners offshore software development company’s new Principle Agile Evangelist, Bill DeVoe explains that, “The 3 C’s are a core component of good agile implementations. And making sure that we focus on delivering all 3 – especially our conversations – can help an agile team reach even loftier heights.” He reminds us all that even if you have been practicing Agile for years (or if you are new to the practice), it is good for all practitioners to review or learn the “3 C’s.”
The 3 C’s were defined by Ron Jeffries in 2001 as the card, conversation, and confirmation. The card started out as a 3 x 5 card, and the small size ensured it kept the story short and concise. The evolving format focuses on: As a <role>, I want <some functionality> so that <I get some benefit>. While it is not necessary to follow this exact format, it is a good starting point especially for Product Owners new to Agile. The next C stands for conversation and typically gets started when a developer reads off the card in order to begin a conversation about it. In most cases, it is the Product Owner who begins to answer questions and gets the dialogue going regarding the story. Bill reminds Agile practitioners that, “Conversations are the backbone of agile (if you check the Agile Manifesto, you’ll see that three of the four values deal with communication).” Confirmation is the third C and involved the acceptance criteria. This included the team’s consensus of when the story was complete as well as answering questions such as what should the software do when finished? In some cases the acceptance criteria was written on the back of the card as a way to remind developers what the system should do. We encourage you to visit Velocity Partners’ website to learn more about our professional nearshore software development services. By combining quality software development and staff scalability, we provide our customers with optimal business solutions. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore (Western hemisphere) software development services using a distributed Agile model that offers outstanding planning, accurate delivery and optimal business value. Our team is comprised of top Agile experts, consultants, and engineers who believe in not only meeting but exceeding our customers’ expectations. Contact us to learn more about how a distributed Agile model provides high-quality software development. The Velocity Partners’ nearshore software development team is comprised of some of the most talented software developers, Scrum Masters and project managers in the field. In addition we provide all of our staff with ongoing, cutting-edge training and career development that centers on technical practices and using Agile/Scrum software development processes.
This is why we are so pleased to now offer VP Coding Clubs at our Latin American delivery centers. Our first edition took place at our Medellín, Colombia center and was based on an adaptation of an internal training course in ReactJs, which is an open-source JavaScript framework for building user interfaces. All of the workshop participants were pleased to be able to not only learn and be inspired by but to actually have the chance to code in the popular framework. While from a variety of backgrounds including Front End and Back End developers, the group had one thing in common – a strong desire to learn. Velocity Partners second Coding Club was at our Caracas, Venezuela delivery center and focused on the topic of QZ Automation for Manual QAs. All of the attendees had the opportunity to learn about the latest industry trends as well as to learn more about VP’s company culture. Please visit our website to learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company and our exciting career opportunities. Our goal is to provide challenging and interesting projects for each employee, as well as to offer company-sponsored training and development and a comprehensive benefits plan. Velocity Partners currently has a variety of job openings at our delivery centers in Medellín, Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; Montevideo, Uruguay; and several locations in Argentina. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore (Western hemisphere) software development services using a distributed Agile model that offers outstanding planning, accurate delivery and optimal business value. Our team is comprised of top Agile experts, consultants, and engineers who believe in not only meeting but exceeding our customers’ expectations. For more information about our exciting career opportunities, please see our website. |
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