Velocity Partners offshore software development company is pleased to announce that Bill DeVoe will join our team on a full-time basis as our Principle Agile Evangelist and will take over many of the tasks that Bob Galen has been doing. His focus will include our Nearshore Operations in addition to assisting the Sales and Marketing team.
Bill’s career of almost 25 years started in software development with writing Windows applications in the early 90s. His first introduction to Agile was in 2000 in the form of eXtreme Programming and he hasn’t looked back since. Ever since Bill has enthusiastically introduced Agile or assisted in a transformation that was already underway at every organization he has been a part of. Bill’s background also includes coaching teams, management and executives on implementing Agile frameworks for large-scale projects and systems. He has extensive experience working with distributed teams, and most recently he helped several large organizations to develop a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Velocity Partners will benefit from Bill’s expertise as he brings his distributed team and Agile expertise to assist us in our continuing efforts to deliver quality services that utilize: Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban, or a scaled framework like SAFe or LeSS. Furthermore, he likes the fact that our company employs a nearshore delivery system as he feels it helps to eliminate some of the inherent difficulties in traditional off-shore delivery models. We know his expertise in Management 3.0 techniques and his years working with distributed teams from an Agile perspective will help us continue to deliver optimal quality for our clients. Bill’s wealth of impressive qualifications includes Certified Scrum Professional, SAFe Program Consultant, and licensed Management 3.0 Facilitator, and he looks forward to helping our teams deliver the best software development. Please see our website to learn more about our software development services. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore 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.
0 Comments
Velocity Partners uses a distributed Agile model for our nearshore software development as it offers excellent planning, faster production times and accurate delivery along with the best value. Since we are an offshoot of an Agile training company, Agile and Scrum methodologies are part of our DNA and engrained into all of our technology processes.
Our productive teams have the advantage of being lead and trained on distributed Agile methods by some of the top thought leaders in Agile/Scrum software development. In addition we offer cost-effective nearshore delivery centers (Western hemisphere – not Eastern hemisphere) in similar time zones for optimal communications between Product Owners, Scrum masters, project leaders and the development team. Furthermore, since communication is the driving force behind a successful distributed Agile model, our virtual teams are supported with state-of-the-art communication tools in all of our Latin American delivery centers. Also with Agile methods, a project is continuously assessed and evaluated througout each phase, both for the direction it is taking as well as the efforts of the team to ensure problems are identified and corrected as early as possible. However while we strongly believe that using a distributed Agile model results in a sucessful outcome, we will work with a company in whatever manner they are most comfort with. As a client, you will discover that Velocity Partners’ software development services offer an excellent ROI as it allows you to scale your business by taking advantage of our technical expertise as well as our low-cost nearshore delivery. Our collaborative approach includes daily standups, Sprint planning meetings, Demos and Retrospective that are all done in our high-tech voice/video virtual team rooms. We encourage you to visit our website to learn more about Velocity Partners. As you will see, our proactive team approach has not only earned us a reputation for producing excellent results but a long list of satisfied customers! Velocity Partners expertly delivers 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 offshore software development company. When you work with Velocity Partners’ offshore software development company, our services allow you to scale your business by extending existing teams or to add additional development capacity using our resources. Specializing in building software with US-caliber staff in cross-functional software development and test teams, our business operations have steadily grown since we opened our doors in 2004.
Each Velocity Partners’ team is built to a client’s specifications and will have experience in the necessary technical skills and business domain. We are also proud to report that our strong brand and attractive culture keeps our teams intact, month-after-month, year-after-year. In fact our employee tenure is above industry average, and we intend to keep it that way as we recognize that satisfied employees mean satisfied clients. Furthermore, having a dedicated team allows our clients to recognize optimal ROI. However just don’t take our word for it. A spokesperson from one of our clients, ClearStar, writes that, “I have had the pleasure of working with Velocity Partners for nearly 5 years in the capacity of Product Owner and working with our dedicated teams is truly an enjoyable and successful experience. In addition to being highly productive, one of the best experiences is that our Velocity Partners’ teams have grown with us in our business and have truly become part of the ClearStar team. The extreme care for our products and for the teams supporting them is amazing.” They go on to that, “The relationships and culture we have built make communicating effortless, work fun and products successful!” Other clients have also expressed their satisfaction with our services including an employee of Hootsuite, who says, “The combination of excellent development experience, product knowledge and a minimal time zone shift has proven to be very successful. Velocity has been very easy to deal with and well worth the budget that we allocated to the project.” Another client notes that we are an “excellent offshore partner to work with.” As you can see, the foundation of Velocity Partners’ success is built on our teams. We strongly believe that it is through teamwork and collaboration that our client success is achieved. With exceptional leadership setting the vision, we empower employees to work together towards one goal –customer success. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore 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. Again expert Bob Galen, Principle Agile Coach and consultant, recently posted a blog on our website that is extremely helpful to the community. He discusses a pattern of collaborative partnering over embedded UX in the teams or independent UX outside of the teams. Bob illustrates the point with a story that involved helping a client to understand and practice release-level planning across Scrum teams. He discusses some of the changes that were a result of his advice such as incorporating UX design work and cross-team dependencies in their projects.
In his example, the firm had hired a talented designer who was given the job of redesigning a few of their legacy applications as well as designing some new components. The problem was that the designer reported directly to the Chief Product Owner and developed an entire view toward a redesign of a specific area in their product line. Furthermore, it was done without any input from the development Scrum teams. On top of that, the Chief Product Owner began to push the teams toward the new design ideas. Bob initially was brought in to fix another problem, but as an Agile expert he soon found people looking to him for a solution. His first efforts involved engaging the designer in a release planning exercise that included allowing the designer to present her ideas to the team. In addition the team was allowed to brainstorm design ideas and story reactions of their own. The next step was to allow the whole group to create a merged or shared view of the work via user stories. The goal was to allow the Scrum team as well as the designer to develop a shared view for what would become a feasible plan. We encourage you to take a look at the rest of Bob’s posts along with his many other very informative blogs. For 15 years, he has been a pragmatic and passionate Agile trainer, coach and practitioner and has successfully leveraged Agile methods as the best way to deliver software value. He states that, “While not being a silver bullet, they simply work better than anything I've tried.” Velocity Partners is an offshore software development company which uses 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. Velocity Partners’ Agile teams expertly help our clients to develop software efficiently and cost-effectively. By leveraging our broad experience, we provide customers with products that have a superior release quality as well as a lower cost. Our nearshore delivery centers are staffed with a talented pool of software developers, project managers and Scrum masters that utilize the latest technical practices and Agile/Scrum software development processes.
Founded in 2004 as a spinoff of an Agile training company, distributed Agile is engrained in all of our technical processes and has helped us to successfully complete projects for a wide variety of clients. By working closely with each client, we can determine the appropriate metrics to track and the optimal pace in which to execute. In addition we can respond quickly to the intrinsic unpredictability of software development to lessen the potential for project risks and provide clients with the best business value. Velocity Partners’ clients include many big names such as Microsoft, Bloomberg BNA, U.S. Bank, Pet 360, Blue Nile, eHarmony, Oracle, Starbucks, but we serve companies both big and small. One of our clients, WebMD says that, “Velocity Partners is a great partner and everyone on the team is very proactive, produces high quality results, takes on any challenge and is always willing do whatever it takes to get things done. I really love our current team and want to keep them happy long into the future!” As a proud leader in software development and quality assurance, our specialties include Microsoft, Open Source, and QA test automation. Please contact us to see how our offshore software development company can help you with your next project. 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. At Velocity Partners, we know how important it is to our customers to keep a team intact during the duration of their project. This is why we are proud to report that we not only have some of the most talented individuals in the industry working for us, but our employee tenure is above industry average.
The advantage of this type of stability is it allows our clients to invest in long-term relationships with their nearshore teams. Furthermore, as the team develops a deeper understanding of the client’s domain, they begin to operate as a true extension of the client’s team, and work collaboratively throughout the life of the project. With relatively low attrition and a real sense of team cohesion, we have been able to concentrate on creating the type of environment where people want to stay. Also our reputation for being an attractive place to work means we have the luxury of hiring the best candidates. As further incentive, we offer extremely competitive regional salaries and very generous benefit packages with perks such as a child care and gym allowances as well as a monthly book allowance for software development, project management and business skills resources. Moreover we offer employees in-company English lessons. Another reason Velocity Partners is a great place for career building is we offer incredible training to every employee. Our team of experienced in-house trainers, internal coaches and instructors allow us to offer leading-edge training and career development that centers on technical practices and Agile/Scrum software development processes. Additionally VP employees have the opportunity to work alongside colleagues in a real world Agile environment and to be mentored by extremely talented team leaders. They also have the chance to work on challenging projects with a great group of clients. Velocity Partners expertly delivers nearshore software development services using a distributed Agile model that offers comprehensive planning for 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 customer expectations. Contact us for more information about our world-class offshore software development company. Velocity Partners’ General Manager of our Argentina and Venezuela nearshore delivery centers, Cristian Gohlke is passionate about delivering quality results to our customers. As our first Argentina hire, he was instrumental in helping to build a successful Agile team for VP’s Argentinian operations. From the start, Cristian focused on hiring the “right people” and to establish a culture that is aligned with Agile methodologies and VP’s principles. In fact Cristian’s own commitment and work ethic has led to a work culture that has very little employee attrition in both our Venezuela and Argentina delivery centers.
Cristian’s responsibilities include overall office management, project reviews and resource utilization, preparing nearshore staff for projects, coordinating staff training, recruiting, interviewing and hiring nearshore staff. He started his career as a software engineer but quickly advanced to technology leadership positions. His background in software engineering has better prepared him to handle the challenges involved in managing our busy development centers. With a computer science degree from Comisión Argentina de Informática, he enjoys music, sports, and recreational activities in his spare time. Our General Manager of the Uruguay and Colombia delivery centers is Pedro Minetti. One of Pedro’s strong suits is utilizing his interpersonal skills to build long-term relationships both in his personal and his business life. His responsibilities include managing all operations in the region as well as local company growth, financial planning, and resource management. With a career that has spanned more than 20 years, Pedro’s extensive background in information technology includes managing multiple global accounts along with overseeing and integrating large, multicultural teams. Pedro studied at George Mason University and the Universidad de la Republica del Uruguay. In his free time, he enjoys weekend camping trips or heading to the sea for scuba diving expeditions. Please visit Velocity Partners’ website to read our entire leadership’s bios and to learn more about our offshore software development company. 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. Velocity Partners is pleased to offer the community a number of resources regarding Agile/Scrum practices and methodologies including informative blogs by Bob Galen. For 15 years, Bob’s focus has been leveraging agile methods as the best way to deliver software value. He is an experienced, pragmatic, and passionate agile trainer, coach, and practitioner.
One recent blog from Bob (posted on our website) deals with the problem of agile team members taking on more than they can handle, and negatively affecting both their productivity and quality of work. Bob identifies factors that may contribute to the problem including the project leadership setting unrealistic goals in terms of their teams’ capacity. Overwhelming the teams’ capacity hinders their ability to produce quality work and meet goals. This may also be a result of management not wanting to disappoint their clients and passing the pressure along to their teams. Or it may be a result of technical teams succumbing to the pressure and trying to deliver on unmanageable goals. Bob points out that more times than not the problem stems from having too many things “in play.” If this is the case, the solution is to reduce the number of parallel projects and really focus on fewer projects, which should increase quality and productivity. He reminds us that multi-tasking doesn’t save time but actually negatively impacts productivity when switching from one task to another. Galen also reminds Agile practitioners “that busyness or sheer effort is not necessarily correlated with results.” Rather work on small sets of things until you get them done. Furthermore, to be the most productive, align your work and commitments to a doable capacity. Please visit to our website to see more of Bob’s blog as well as to learn about our offshore software development company. 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. Velocity Partners was founded in 2004 as a spinoff of an Agile training company and has quickly evolved into a top offshore software development company. Our reputation is built on proudly providing customers with superior software development services that incorporate the latest, emerging technology using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
In fact even our name, “Velocity,” is a term used by practitioners of Agile to track the effort estimates associated with units of work completed over set intervals known as “iterations.” These short work periods often run from Monday to Friday but are usually not longer than four weeks. In addition they are agreed upon by the team and followed for the duration of the project. “The fixed length of iterations gives teams a simple way to obtain, based on velocity and the amount of work remaining; a usually accurate (though not very precise) estimation of the project's remaining duration.”¹ Software development using an Agile model consists of an initial vision and planning period, followed by the sequence of iterations, and finally a short closure period upon the project’s completion. When using velocity to track and estimate the length of a project, it is important to remember to take the aggregate of the team’s efforts during the first few iterations and not just individual results. In addition since each team and each project is different, there is no meaningful comparison of velocity. To ensure a reasonable approximation of the project’s completion date, user stories must be measured in a consistent manner and the velocity calculated by counting the units of work completed in a set interval. Please visit our website to learn more about our premium software development services. Our nearshore delivery centers ensure that communication is timely as we are all in the Western hemisphere. Moreover your team will be built to specifically address the technical needs of your project as well as your business domain. At Velocity Partners, we expertly deliver 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. Visit our website to learn more about our cost-effective software development services. Source: ¹agilealliance.org/glossary/velocity/ |
Archives
April 2017
Categories
All
|