System Integration

Iterative development in two-week cycles strengthens integration projects through demonstrated progress. Teams develop logical business functionality segments with management of cross-team dependencies. The company can align agile methods with Project Management Institute practices or deliver using iterative methodology based on PMBOK for projects with definitive scope.

Iterative development conducted in two-week cycles strengthens system integration projects with demonstrated progress verified by working software. Regular and focused feedback from users and stakeholders ensures the work efforts align with expectations and needs. It is also a way to ensure long term alignment in vision, mission, expectations, and execution. Agile-based development also provides a number of techniques for risk management including use of prototypes, proof of concepts, and other low-effort high-impact efforts to validate identified risks and develop mitigations.

Our approach is to work with clients to develop a set of software releases that represent logical segments of business functionality. We collaborate to produce a roadmap and release plan that communicate the strategy to deliver a complete system over a series of releases. The release plan includes management of cross-team dependencies; our team has experience using agile development while managing dependencies in coordination with other teams that may be using a different development approach, such as waterfall. It is frequently the case that our client's project management offices utilize the practices of the Project Management Institute. In addition to experience with system development, we also bring a set of practices to integrate agile development with your standard practices. This results in not just clear metrics and reports but also progress that is valuable to user and demonstrable to stakeholders.

We understand that agile may not automatically align with your organization practices or regulatory requirements and can also deliver your project using an iterative methodology. Iterative development can also be a good choice for projects with definitive scope, like technical upgrades, of if the there is a clear linear progression for the implementation of the software package(s). Iterative development is also a way to gradually implement agile practices in your organization using iterations over months instead of weeks. Our iterative approach is based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and supplemented with practices and tools we have developed for managing system integration projects.