Agile Development

Overview
Businesses need the flexibility of an agile approach, but the safety of a rigorous software assurance framework. SQE Consulting proves the two aren’t mutually exclusive.

Today, businesses cannot afford to throw requirements "over the wall" to software development and hope for the best. Market and economic pressures demand that software development activities balance agility and quality, resulting in software projects that are flexible to changes in the market, predictable in their delivery, and successful in achieving business quality objectives.

SQE Consulting provides a unique approach to software development, combining agile engineering methods with a software assurance framework to achieve maximum business value from your software. Whether we are defining your requirements, delivering code, or automating your build and test process, SQE Consulting assures your software meets its business objectives.

Requirements Envisioning
SQE Consulting’s pragmatic adoption of the agile methodology allows us to arrive at a more flexible, actionable and defensible plan in weeks, not months. With a rare blend of business acumen, facilitation experience and technical depth, the SQE Consulting team will guide you through a rapid process of defining the highest business value requirements, selecting the best development tools and technologies, assembling a team and building a development-ready plan that is able to react to shifting demands.

Agile Software Development
Many development managers believe that process rigor and well-conceived system design are at odds with business agility and speed-to-market. This leaves their business partners in the difficult position of having to choose between software assurance and timely market delivery. Let SQE Consulting show you how to combine the flexibility and collaboration of agile development with time-tested application security and reliability best practices.

Continuous Integration
A critical part of any successful development effort is the ability to execute reliable, repeatable builds of the software on-demand. Without such a capability, project teams accept a great deal of delivery risk and incur many unnecessary costs. Given the advent of low-cost, powerful tools, there is no excuse to develop without the safety net of continuous integration. Let us show you how to establish and leverage a Continuous Integration environment to begin realizing benefits today.

Program and Project Management
SQE Consulting believes that every successful initiative requires leadership with deep technical experience, the skills to facilitate open communication, and discipline to enforce best practices. Our project and program managers have this rare blend of skills, and are expert at blending leading-edge technologies with your domain-specific vision to form actionable delivery plans.

Agile Process Improvement
Improve your software development, software security and quality assurance processes using SQE Consulting's proprietary process improvement framework. SQE Consulting understands that the development of an efficient and repeatable process requires balancing the rigor of best practices with creative freedom for team members. Our consultants are expert at striking this balance as they tailor industry best practices to meet organizational and domain-specific demands.

Agile Development Training
Don't know how to get started? Whether your teams are exploring agile for the first time or need expert training in deeper agile concepts such as Continuous Integration or Test Driven Development (TDD) let SQE Consulting help. Our trainers will work with you to tailor a training program specific to your needs, and can provide a plan for adoption of the practices you've learned.

For more information on SQE Consulting professional services, contact us at jmacnaughton@sqe.com or 904.278.0524 x 212.