Agile Methodology

Manage your business projects in a new way - Lean, Faster, and Better.

It's a reality that in a changing world, business priorities shift and IT projects get cancelled. Gartner suggests traditional methods of application development result in more than 50 percent project failure rate. Customers across all industries operating in a competitive market survive by providing products and services that are relevant today, make them accessible efficiently, and maintain a positive customer experience. In short, they must manage change more effectively and become more Agile.

Service Offerings

MphasiS helps clients rethink the way business value is measured and delivered through IT as a result of our continued investment in new Application development techniques. Customers are seeing improved ROI and time to market by focusing on the changes that really drive improvements to the top line and bottom line of businesses through our Agile techniques.

Agile Consulting

MphasiS offers comprehensive services and expertise to support clients' application development and support initiatives with Agile practices. Our Agile Consulting office has the people, processes, tools, and delivery support to provide end-to-end support for Agile implementation.

• Agile Team: We have an experienced group of Agile mindset people who live the values and are certified from Agile licensing authorities like scrum Alliance at various levels.
• Agile Processes: Our hands-on Agile consultants work with the client business, IT, and delivery teams to execute Agile transformations, run MphasiS incubator sprints, provide ongoing Agile coaching and mentoring, run maturity audits and benchmarking against other successful Agile engagements.
• Agile Tooling: We provide special support from Agile technologists and infrastructure and automation shared services teams to set up and use Agile Lifecycle Management (ALM), Automated Testing, Continuous Integration (CI), and Configuration Management tools. Agile tooling in our experience usually forms the basis for a large and successful Agile program.
• Agile Delivery Support: The services includes setting up of a new program using MphasiS Agile delivery toolkit, selection and implementation of right Agile practices, usage of standard and customized Agile metrics suited to client context, right use of tools and right level of reporting via information radiators.

Agile Incubator

MphasiS' Agile Incubator methodology offers you the opportunity to introduce 'Agile' delivery techniques in a fully integrated and supportive environment. An engagement with MphasiS will assure you the following results:

• Cost neutral 'Agile incubator' running in parallel with your current practice and delivering business value
• Operational gap analysis between current state to a fully sustainable and productive Agile environment
• Assessment of value delivered against IT investments
• MphasiS roadmap for transformation to 'Agile' IT Project delivery
• Recommendations for changes to governance
• Analysis of your current processes against Agile best practice
• A discreet proof of concept for a move from Waterfall to Agile, designed to provide demonstrable business benefit within two months

Benefits

MphasiS' global Agile model for enterprises aims at maximizing the benefits of Agile methodology adoption and reducing the identified risks.

• Reduced project risk
• Accelerated time to market
• Ability to manage changing priorities
• Improved project visibility and quality
• Improved ROI and sustainability
• Accelerates the common understanding of project goal and collaboration amongst vendors in multi-vendor engagements

The MphasiS Difference

• Successfully incubated, set up, and scaled distributed Agile teams
• Certified and experienced Scrum Coaches to assess your Agile Readiness
• Use of solution accelerators and frameworks to support shorter and efficient release cycles
• Enables clients to meet their Agile delivery objectives without compromising quality

For more details on Agile Methodology, contact agile@mphasis.com.