Feb 5

Agile Development

At Essential Systems we’re firm believers in Agile Development and see it as a perfect melding of sound development practices and business needs. We aim to produce all of our systems using this method and are especially keen on its customer focused and results orientated approach. For those not in the know already Agile Development can be summed up in the following way:

Customer satisfaction by continuous delivery of working software.
Working software is the prime measure of progress.
Change is inevitable and even late changes to specs. are welcomed.
Close cooperation between business people and developers.
Communication face-to-face is the most effective way to attain goals.
Projects are built around motivated, adaptable and skilled individuals.
Continuous development of people and processes so everyone is firing at maximum ability.
Simplicity.
Self organizing teams.
Adaptability.