Our mission is to ensure your success using agile development methods and practices.

Leading and managing engineering teams to build high quality software is a daunting task. Why? Because inherent to the task is great complexity. We face complexity using different technologies, molding team dynamics, making estimation commitments, managing talent gaps, and attempting to satisfy a demanding customer base.

Over the past 40 years, our industry has applied many practices to help isolate and overcome this complexity. We’ve tried mining user requirements in infinite detail, specifying architectures and designs to the nth degree, measuring our progress in terms of function points and lines of code, producing reams of documentation that capture every nuance of the system, have implemented strict sign-off and hand-off points – all with little success. Yet, we keep doing the same things over and over, with the same result, because we have no better alternatives. Or do we?

Over the past several years, agilsts have brought to bear well-known practices from other, more mature industries. These practices, based on sound principles, help us to deal with intrinsic complexity, and the shifting tides of an unsure landscape, e.g., business and user requirements changing over time. From the realms of empirical process control, lean manufacturing, chaos theory and industrial psychology, we have developed mechanisms to help manage complexity, provide transparency, and implement high-quality systems effectively.

Not surprisingly, the key element to success is people: a group of dedicated, educated, talented and committed people, given the rights tools and authority, can achieve results far beyond what most of us have experienced on our projects to date.

Here at agilemania, we'll help you to understand the principles on which agile methodologies are based, successfully employ the practices, and elevate your teams to use these techniques and tools to maximum effect.

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