Digité announces General Availability of Swift-Kanban
Digité, Inc., a leading Agile ALM vendor, announced the GA release of Swift-Kanban, the first in their Swift line of products. Swift-Kanban is out of
March 19, 2011
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Lean, Agile, Visual Management from the Trenches
Kanban and Offshore Development
I am often asked by conference attendees whether Kanban can be used with distributed and offshore teams. It seems that those newer to Kanban concepts are fascinated with pictures of white boards covered in sticky notes, or walls with index cards pinned to them representing work-in-progress (WIP). There seems to be a common assumption that Kanban started with collocated teams doing Agile software development. While some people can see the benefits of limiting WIP even for offshore or distributed teams, it isn’t obvious how it is achieved.
March 14, 2011
Agility requires greater Discipline – Are you ready for it?
For long, we have heard complaints about Waterfall, CMMI, etc. The complaints vary from too much process to too much documentation to too much overhead, etc. The fact is that like everything else that has been around for a while, the spirit behind these standards/ certifications/ methodologies has been diluted over time. I know of instances where tons of backdated documentation is generated before the day of the CMMI audit! Much worse, we have all heard of instances where certificates are “bought” out.
February 24, 2011
Is Agile ALM on SaaS for you?
In the last 2 years, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as a delivery model for corporate applications has found a significant amount of support. In the aftermath of the 2008 economic crash worldwide, there has been a surge of interest in exploring the SaaS model for a variety of reasons – mainly around reducing up-front investment typically associated with on-premise license purchases (operating expenses vs. capital expenses), ease of getting up and running, the ability to opt-out if you didn’t like the software, and several others.
February 6, 2011
Digité Enterprise v 6.4 is Released
Digité Enterprise, v 6.4 is Released with Smarter Project Financial and Efficient Resource Planning. Digite, Inc., a provider of leading-edge Agile ALM and Kanban tools,
January 29, 2011
When is a project too small or too short for ALM?
To my mind the phrase Application Lifecycle Management naturally means managing the lifecycle of an application. An application’s life begins humbly – with a request from a user or a customer, which fights for its survival amongst scores of similar requests. Once it wins, an application – however small or large – gets implemented/ developed to meet that request. Once deployed, an application has a life, the length of which is determined by a number of factors such as TCO and conformance to changing business requirements. The moment these factors weigh against the application, out it goes…
January 21, 2011
Digité Participates in Agile Coach Camp 2010
Digite recently sponsored a team at the Agile Coach Camp (Goa, India) organized by ASCI (Agile Software community of India) where a good number of agile coaches and practitioners from various leading organizations and cities of India met in an open space format, to discuss various Agile coaching and implementation issues, as well as share notes on various flavors and practices of Agile being implemented in different organizations.
May 20, 2010
Product Engineering depends on ALM Lifeline
If there is one team that epitomizes the ‘Structured Chaos, Unstructured Innovation’ mantra, it is the Digité Engineering team! Our daily churn across different engineering streams of new releases, maintenance and Patch Releases, as well as responding to Support and field issues are all done in a day’s work! As Director, Engineering at Digité, my job is to make sure we are all pulling in the same direction!
April 5, 2010
What is the Vision – Agile or Agility?
My introduction to the Agile world goes back about 3 years. Charged with the new buzz of Agile, a team at Digité attended an Agile workshop conducted by a local Agile/ Scrum trainer. The first part of the workshop was really very exciting where the coach educated us on the Agile Manifesto. In the second half, we learned of various Scrum characteristics. At the end, the coach made a remark – ‘You will be an Agile Organization only if you follow ALL of the Scrum methods described in the workshop’.
March 11, 2010
How ALM Tools Can Help Key Software Processes
In a recent exchange, I was asked what the typical ALM tools do to address three key challenges around process improvement and compliance in software/ IT organizations, and more specifically, what we at Digité do about them. I felt these would be of interest to others as well, so here is a summary of that exchange. Most tools lack any (effort) estimation capability and most estimates falter. This is one area that remains a challenge for most organizations and application/ software projects are notorious for not meeting their original effort/ cost/ time estimates.
March 1, 2010
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