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Agile is future-proof and flexible
Bringing you from a theoretical world to the empirical, agile helps you reach your goals faster and simplifies decision making throughout the project lifecycle. As projects move forward, so do stakeholder requirements and user needs. Agile methodologies ensure that you're never caught off-guard, ready to tackle new project challenges and stay in the sweet spot of product-market fit.
When to choose agile development
De-risk projects and speed up delivery with adaptable project management practices.
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Fluid requirements. When project requirements are expected to evolve, agile is built to help you adapt effortlessly.
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User focus. If continuous user feedback and iterative testing are key to your project, agile is the way to go.
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Complex specifications. For complex projects where delivering the whole solution at once isn't feasible, agile breaks it down into manageable steps.
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High risk environment. The iterative nature of agile allows teams to identify and address issues early, reducing risks and avoiding costly late-stage changes.
Agile team extension for a fintech unicorn
Challenge: Zeller needed to build enhancements to their payment solutions quickly to meet a critical launch timeline.
Solution:
- Netguru's team scaled up rapidly to complement Zeller's internal teams, with real-time communication and efficient coordination across different time zones.
- Agile practices helped manage the project and deliver support within tight deadlines.
Results:
- Significant reduction in time for business owners to access Zeller’s services.
- Delivered a fully integrated, out-of-the-box solution enabling businesses to manage finances and accept payments efficiently.
- Zeller established itself as one of Australia's fastest-growing fintechs.
- Continued collaboration between Zeller and Netguru, leading to the development of new features and enhancements.
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Netguru’s real-time communication and ability to adapt to Zeller’s existing team communication tools enabled us to coordinate teams across multiple projects and manage how we worked together most efficiently.
James Vatiliotis
Product Lead at Zeller
How our agile expertise can help you
Embark on a journey to streamlined efficiency and innovation with our team by your side. Whether you're new to agile or looking to enhance your existing practices, our support will bring out the best in your projects.
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Agile guidance. Integrate agile methodologies into your team’s workflow and company culture.
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Full-scale agile development. Let us deliver your software development projects using agile methodologies to ensure flexibility, speed, and quality.
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Agile support. We'll set up agile project management systems with tools and strategies to improve project tracking, transparency, and collaboration.
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Agile optimization. Refine your existing agile processes for improved efficiency and effectiveness with our help.
Fundamentals of agile
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- Iterative process: Agile breaks down projects into short, manageable segments, allowing for rapid development and iteration.
- Adaptability to change: Central to agile is its flexibility to adapt to changing client needs and requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
- Focus on client needs: Agile methodology emphasizes aligning product development closely with customer and client demands.
- Collaborative approach: Encourages collaboration within teams and with stakeholders, fostering innovation and problem-solving.
- Emphasis on value delivery: Agile teams work towards delivering products that offer real value to customers, prioritizing customer satisfaction.
Essential roles in agile teams
- Scrum master/team lead: Facilitates the team, manages processes, and ensures milestones are met while maintaining a focus on team dynamics and performance.
- Product owner: Represents the business perspective, manages the product backlog, prioritizes user stories, and balances stakeholder needs with project goals.
- Team members: Diverse roles including developers, testers, and data engineers who take ownership of specific tasks, contributing to all stages of the project.
- Technical experts: Offer specialized knowledge to address challenges, ensure technical coherence, and approve technical aspects of the solution.
- Agile coach: Promotes and monitors agile best practices within the team, embedding agile processes and standards.
- Integrator (in larger teams): Coordinates multiple teams and sections, ensuring integration into a cohesive end-product.
- Independent tester: Provides quality assurance and tests solutions before delivery, preventing defective products from reaching customers.
- Architect: Ensures solutions are fit for purpose within the enterprise structure and facilitates architectural decisions with sub-teams.
Agile in a remote environment
Remote work, now a common feature of the professional landscape, presents unique challenges and opportunities for agile methodologies. While agile practices traditionally emphasize face-to-face interaction, remote environments necessitate adapting these principles to digital formats.
Key adaptations for remote agile success
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Digital tool mastery: Embrace the core values of agile and translate them into the remote context using digital tools like online whiteboards and shared documents.
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Fostering team connections: Encourage informal interactions, such as sharing personal updates at the start of meetings, to build team rapport in a remote setup.
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Structured yet flexible workflow: Use frameworks like Scrum to provide structure, while adapting them to suit remote dynamics. Clear guidelines for meetings and tasks are essential, balanced with flexibility for individual creativity.
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Trust and transparency: Foster a culture of trust and openness through direct feedback, regular retrospectives, and clear communication channels.
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Self-reliance and accountability: Promote self-reliance and self-regulation in team members, aligning with agile's principle of self-organizing teams.
We're experts in agile software development
Self-organizing, agile team for French fintech unicorn Spendesk
Challenge: Spendesk wanted to enhance its financial platform by integrating a SEPA payment system into its web app. This ambitious project required compliance with stringent SEPA regulations and certification from BPCE PS, a major French banking entity.
Solution:
- Assembled a self-organizing team of experts from Netguru, working in parallel with Spendesk’s teams for ongoing technical and Node.js development support for the internal banking system.
- Developed a stable testing environment and strategy aligning with BPCE PS requirements.
Results:
- Delivered a functional service for handling SEPA incoming and outgoing payments.
- Successfully completed the BPCE PS certification, aligning Spendesk's service with SEPA regulations.
- Executed Spendesk’s first outgoing and incoming test payments post BPCE PS certification.
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I’ve had a long-lasting partnership with Netguru. Happy that it works so well and hopeful that we can cooperate on more projects in the future. Netguru always tries to make things possible.
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