Traditional project approaches are not always suitable for every project or every customer and where appropriate, Phoenix will utilise an Agile development methodology to create a more interactive customer centric development environment that allows us to deliver of a solution in rapid timescales.
Phoenix use the Agile methodology to deliver all of our internal product releases and have worked with our customers to enable them to benefit from the Agile experience. Agile uses a “minimum feature for benefit” approach to define project sprints which forces users to decide on core elements of functionality to create a workable application that will deliver real business benefits in rapid timeframes.
It’s an entirely different mindset to the traditional waterfall approach to projects where every possible feature and function was defined, designed and developed before the solution was ever made available to the end user. When using Agile the end user is involved in the development to prioritise the features (known as user stories) which are combined to create a working application.
Benefits of an Agile approach
Increases time to delivery of application functionality
Supports customer collaboration and ongoing functional changes
Increases developer productivity
Improves software quality
Reduces testing time
Increases ROI on projects.
Not every project is suited to agile development but Phoenix will work with you to understand your requirements and recommend the most appropriate way forward for your project. If Agile is the preferred approach, we will scope your project based on a number of predefined ‘Sprints’ to provide a fixed price and fixed timeframe for the project and ensure the early delivery of business benefits.
