Category: How we work

  • Agile benefits – Part 2 – Frequent releases

    Another aspect promoted by Agile is the concept of frequent releases.  To demonstrate this, I’m going to draw on a real, current project that I’m involved in.  In this project, we’re developing a set of applications that contain approximately 15 major features between them.  While there is a basic framework that ties them together, most…

  • Agile IA??? What is that??

    For the past year, the Institutional Analytics  (IA) team has been working as an agile development team-but what does that mean? The key feature of agile is incremental, value driven delivery.  Currently, new code can be deployed in test each week with planned production moves every four weeks. This approach  gives clients new features incrementally…