Consulting
The idea behind Agile is simple: Be customer-driven, encourage feedback, build in smaller batches and keep quality high. But making the transition to Agile can be difficult and expensive for many organizations, because there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Implementing Agile successfully often requires changes that can be difficult to catalyze from the inside. The whole team has to be on the same page with effective skills and share a common purpose.
Techniques of Design is an independent consulting firm that helps software developers and development teams around the world, enabling them to build high-quality software more rapidly. We specialize in helping our clients make the transition to Agile-development practices.
Successful Agile-development teams must understand more than just the Agile process itself. They need to have a firm understanding of the software-engineering practices that enable quality to be built incrementally into every level, so that design requirements can unfold without a lot of rework. Unfortunately, traditional software-design and -development methodologies do not always support building code in this way.
Because every team and every organization is different, we do not believe in using a one-size-fits-all approach to making the transition to Agile. Instead, we conducts a detailed assessment of your team’s current development processes; identifies the best practices that can drive improvement; and then crafts custom solutions designed to satisfy your team’s unique needs and integrate successfully with your organization’s culture.
Techniques of Design offers consulting for individuals and small groups in critical functions such as:
- Requirements, User Stories and Acceptance Tests: If defining what you need to get started on a project is a challenge, then driving requirements from acceptance tests can be a powerful way to articulate each piece of functionality. You’ll get tips, tricks and tools for defining a living specification that won’t go out of date as your code changes.
- Design: Drawing on the wisdom from design patterns, refactoring and testing, we craft solutions that are easy to understand, maintain and extend.
- Consensus on Coding Standards and Best Practices: We can show you the handful of simple practices—something few developers know about—that can be used to build higher quality software more rapidly
- Planning, Assessments, Reviews and Evaluation: Outside perspectives are often helpful in reviewing designs and implementations. We’ve done so many design and code reviews that we can immediately spot patterns in problems that have eluded others. By focusing on what can be encapsulated, we help you discover better ways to design your software.
- Tools: Do you need developer tools, version control or collaboration technology? We’ve worked with many of them and can help you find tools to meet your specific needs.
- Triage and Debugging: We know the kinds of challenges .NET and Java software can create. We can help your team locate bugs and design flaws and quickly get back on track to meet deadlines.
Schedule a free consultation to learn how Techniques of Design can help improve your software development.
