OSSCube adopts a highly flexible model for development to easily incorporate with the changing demands of clients. We consider an agile/scrum approach to become more responsive and hit the moving project—in less time and within budget. Our state-of-the-art development center focuses on agile approach to deliver increased value, visibility and adaptability, and significantly reduce project risk.
We have long experience in employing agile methodology to consistently help our customers in building and maintaining high-quality software products and achieve desired results. We have proven track record in numerous successful releases to the market.
We have combined the best practices of globally distributed Agile, along with the frequent inspect and adapt approach of Scrum. We follow the agile software development with Scrum approach and have many Scrum Masters in across our ranks. Advantages of Agile with SCRUM methodologies in PHP Projects gives you the following benefits:
- Better collaboration and immediate feedback
- Improved quality of deliverables
- Enhance developer commitment and feelings of ownership
- Better estimates to balance project development speed and quality
- Early identification of the forthcoming problems through daily meetings
- Dealing with the changes is easier that leads to better control on project schedule and state
- Less overhead cost in terms of process and management
Some of the practices that we follow are:
Management practices
- Planning Game / 2 level planning - A coarse grained view of the whole project, a detailed view of only the current iteration. Estimation of Use Case scenarios/User Stories based on relative sizing through joint business IT workshops.
- Iterative development - Build early and demonstrate functionality throughout the project not just at the end.
- Lifecycle management - Review the project in phases to assess whether it should carry on.
- Change Management - Manage and incorporate change as part of the project, but tightly control each iteration.
- Whole team/Scrum - Cross functional, self organising and collaborative.
Technical practices
- Shared vision - A shared vision is also essential for planning and monitoring the scope of the development effort.
- Continuous integration - Integrating the system more frequently, integration issues are identified and fixed earlier.
- Concurrent testing - Test throughout development to ensure the software works. Don’t leave it to the end.
- Test driven development - Reduces time to market by reducing the amount of time needed to integrate and stabilize builds. It improves productivity by finding and fixing errors close to the time they're introduced
- Use case (User Story) driven development - Avoid the pitfalls of vague requirements or over detailed solution statements. Allow developers to solve well described business scenarios. A user story equates to 1 use case scenario, it should be estimatable, it should have an acceptance criteria and be testable, it should not describe the solution, and it is authored by the Product Owner.
- Evolutionary Architecture - With a solid baseline architecture and overall data model in place, perform architecture work "just in time" with all other work.
- Evolutionary design - With a baseline design in place with key design principles and standards, incrementally formulating the design while implementing the software improves productivity, innovation, and time-to-market.
