Traditional enterprise organizational structures, project management methods and software development practices are falling short in today’s fast-paced business environments. The need to respond quickly to rapidly changing business conditions, beat the competition to market and reduce development costs is greater than ever for businesses of all types.

Key Benefits of Agile
Shorter Time-to-Market / Quicker ROI
Increased Productivity / Decreased Development Costs
High Quality Products / Decreased Cost of Ownership
Enhanced Relationship between the Business and IT

Why CIBER
Agility Assessments
Product Discovery
Agile Training
Agile Enterprise Adoption

Agile Coaching & Certification
Agile Coaching

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Some of the key benefits of Agile are:

Shorter Time to Market / Quicker ROI

The Standish Group’s CHAOS Report tells us that 45% of product functionality is never used and 19% rarely used, so why spend a lot of time developing features that bring little to no business value?

Using Agile, the business will be part of the development team and drive product development.   Agile teams deliver completed increments of product functionality most valuable to the business once every 1 to 4 weeks.  Products developed by Agile teams can be released into production sooner which yields a quicker return on investment over traditional methods.

Increased Productivity / Decreased Development Costs

Productivity increases because Agile teams are highly collaborative and self-organizing.  They have clearly defined roles and responsibilities.  Agile teams work in supportive, open environments where ideas are freely shared and creativity thrives. 

In Agile environments, learning is amplified and developers take on tasks beyond their traditional specialties, increasing each team member’s utilization and reducing development costs.  Agile project management methods, like Scrum, allow teams to be more focused, disciplined and continuously improving.

High Quality Products / Decreased Cost of Ownership

Agile development practices like Test Driven Development, Pair Programming and Continuous Integration significantly reduce the number of defects produced and allow the product to be modified more easily.  Products that are well designed and have a high percentage of automated test coverage produce fewer problems in production and cost much less to maintain.

Enhanced Relationship between the Business and IT

Agile development teams demonstrate their work to the business, customers and other stakeholders for validation frequently.  As a result, the business can change the focus of the team to ensure the best product is being created for the customer.  By working this closely, the development team understands the product vision and the business appreciates the difficultly of turning requirements into working software, dramatically improving trust between the two groups.

Why CIBER?

CIBER understands Agile and has formed an Agile Practice to help our clients implement and improve upon new methods of delivering the highest quality and most valuable products and services to their customers quickly and less expensively.

Agile methods are the key to increasing your business’ agility, but they are difficult to implement due to the impact Agile brings to the organization’s culture.  CIBER will be your seasoned and experienced partner during your journey to agility and can guide you every step of the way using our comprehensive set of Agile offerings.

Agility Assessments
Assessments determine how to customize the approach to agility so it best suites the organization’s needs.  For organizations that have already implemented Agile, assessments determine if the implementation is satisfactory and adheres to the values and principles of Agile. 

All levels of assessments produce a report that identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the organization or team with respect to Agile.  The report will also include a road map to guide the transition to Agile or improve an existing implementation.

Product Discovery
There is a common myth that Agile projects have little or no planning. In fact, the Agile philosophy is to minimize planning effort up front and continually re-plan throughout the project. Many projects will still benefit from a few weeks of early planning to determine the true purpose of the product, budget, scope and schedule before assembling a development team. This is called Product Discovery.

Agile Training
CIBER offers many customized training solutions to help ensure a successful Agile adoption.  Our training programs are designed to involve everyone needed to create an effective Agile organization including development teams, product management and executives.  CIBER’s training programs are all highly interactive to provide as much experiential learning as possible. 

Agile Training Sessions and Workshops:

• Introduction to Agile and Scrum
• Agile Estimating and Planning
• Agile Development Practices Overview
• Agile Coach Training

Agile Enterprise Adoption
Success in Agile projects can often lead to an organizational strategy that fully embraces the Agile principles. For organizations who wish to align their entire enterprise to better support Agile and leverage the Agile mindset for strategic and portfolio planning, CIBER offers the Agile Enterprise Adoption service.  This service incorporates a customized set of our Agile Practice offerings to prepare and transition an organization on all levels to realize the full range of benefits available with Agile.