Agile Software Development
STP Systems follows agile
software development methods to accelerate time to market and keep in
sync with customer demands. Agile development is driven by a vision
to achieve business value and fosters better teamwork resulting in increased
productivity, higher quality, and responding more rapidly to market
demands.
Agile Manifesto
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
- Working software over comprehensive documentation.
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
- Responding to change over following a plan.
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items
on the left more.
Agile Principles
We follow these principles:
- Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early
and continuous delivery of valuable software.
- Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile
processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
- Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks
to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
- Business people and developers must work together daily throughout
the project.
- Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment
and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
- The most efficient and effective method of conveying information
to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
- Working software is the primary measure of progress.
- Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors,
developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace
indefinitely.
- Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
enhances agility.
- Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is
essential.
- The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from
self-organizing teams.
- At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more
effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.