SQA Resources Now Provides Agile Services
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Tired of wasting time, money and energy towards software projects? In today’s market, industries are in need of a quick and efficient way to develop their business and IT initiatives. SQA Resources says, so long traditional model and hello to Agile!
Agile Is Just the Ticket!
Responsive, Nimble and Swift! Agile is a lean process that allows for solutions to be made through collaborative cross-functional teams. Agile teams will seek to reach a common goal as a single entity.
SQA Resources is available to you to make projects more time efficient and enjoyable. We offer coaching, mentoring and best practices. Our focus is achieving your goal and doing it strategically by “Developing People and Building Teams!”
SQA Resources Mentors Agile
Are you ready to adopt Agile in your organization? Adopting Agile in any organization can be challenging. That is why SQA Resources offers our services – to ensure your team maximizes the benefits of Agile.
The Agile approach to software development is based on four principles:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
First Hand Experience
SQA Resources provides first-hand experience as Senior QA leads and Scrum Masters. Our Mentoring Services are designed to help teams and individuals apply Agile concepts and practices on the job. Our approach helps teams plan and achieve specific deliverables, such as creating a new product backlog or integrated release plan.
Enterprise Agile Adoption is a comprehensive program for organizations ready to extend the benefits of Agile beyond the team level.
Coaching and Mentoring
SQA Resources offers coaching in Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and Lean. Our hands-on mentoring services will provide your team with needed support and guidance to develop proficiency in their Agile practices from
beginning to adoption. Our Agile staff provides team facilitation, real-time feedback, professional mentoring, and management consulting.
Our experienced facilitators will work side-by-side with your team, mentoring and guiding them in the implementation of Agile practices. Our services can be customized to address a specific need or problem your team is facing. Mentoring is performed on-site and can be scheduled to coincide with key dates for your project team. Mentoring engagements may be as short as a few days, or could be part of a larger engagement such as an enterprise rollout.
Team Services
People learn best by doing. SQA Resources motto is – Developing People, Building Teams. Our Team Services provides teams that are adopting Agile practices with structured mentoring in a way that maximizes learning and skill development. We do this by combining workshop-based training with hands-on effort on real project artifacts.
What We Offer
- A customized program of Agile and technical workshops.
- Help to start well, build momentum, and avoid pitfalls along the way.
- Hands-on coaching and mentoring to improve individual and team skills
- Support to existing teams in growing their potential
- Mentoring and immediate feedback
- Agile practices: Scrum, Lean and Extreme Programming (XP)
Our practitioners will work closely with your project teams and their leadership, providing team facilitation, real-time feedback, professional mentoring, and management consulting. Our experienced practitioners will provide your teams with the support and expertise they need to succeed with Agile practices.
Our Workshops
• Starting Well as an Agile Team: Establish a strong foundation for your new teams – Our Agile Coaches use their real-world experience to help your project teams get set up with effective team collaboration tools and practices.
• Effective Requirements for Agile Teams: User Story Workshop – Your team will develop skills in writing effective user stories using your actual product backlog. Learn to avoid common pitfalls and use Agile planning practices effectively.
• Specified, Prioritized and Estimated: Developing a Product Backlog – Build a prioritized, estimated, and well understood product backlog in alignment with your project vision. Develop good backlog grooming practices while improving your product backlog.
• Inspect and Adapt: Improving Through Retrospectives – Continuous improvement is at the heart of Agile. Learn to use Sprint and Release Retrospectives to reveal lessons learned and convert them to solutions.
• Agile Software Quality – Optimize delivery capabilities and product quality through practical application of automated acceptance testing, evolutionary design, collective code ownership, and continuous integration.
• Test-Driven Development – Deliver higher quality software through the use of Test-Driven Development (TDD) tools and techniques. Developers will learn and implement TDD best practices on their own software projects.
• Executive Forum on Agile – Agile takes great leadership. Guide your organization in working effectively with Agile and Scrum. Both technical and non-technical executives will gain a better understanding of how Agile can benefit the entire company. Use Agile methods to make your company more accountable, market responsive, and productive.
The SQA Resources Advantage
Adopting Agile practices involves challenging changes. Our practitioners draw upon our real world experience at delivering projects to enable your on the job learning experience. The SQA Resource approach is client-specific and adaptable. Each engagement is unique, as are our customers. We tailor our Agile Team Services program to meet the unique needs of your organization.