Development

Release and go live every 4 weeks

The pressure to deliver new releases faster increases and grows day to day. Businesses have a valid desire to get control over their project and to go live every one or two months. Resulting in huge pressure for the IT organization. Xebia’s agile software development method, based heavily on Scrum, provides a process and mindset that will enable the IT organization to start delivering fully tested high quality new releases every two to four weeks.

Xebia combines 
productivity, quality and effectiveness

Projects are started to control productivity, quality and effectiveness. But with traditional projects, clients are often forced to trade off between these three, causing the project to be either late, more expensive, having a higher cost of ownership or more bugs than one would wish for. Also, problems become visible rather late in the process, making it hard to adapt to changes of the environment or changes in the requirements.

IT departments typically work with a supply-demand model, where business demands and IT is the supplier. This process often leads to a loss of focus on business value as the IT department is busy managing expectations and deadlines. To cover the risk of not making the deadlines, IT builds in slack time which leads to low productivity.

Productivity boost of up to 200 - 800%

Xebia consistently demonstrates that working with Xebia in Agile software development projects improves the productivity with at least 200%. The best result so far has been an 800% productivity improvement, where the Xebia team worked fully Agile compared to an earlier strict waterfall method attempt.
The model of Xebia's Agile process is built around the principle of transparency and monitoring. By measuring what we achieve, a team receives a lot of feedback and thus knowledge about their productivity. By capturing this information in a graph, the productivity trend (often referred to as the team’s velocity) is made crystal clear. Based on this constantly improving velocity, the teams become highly predictable. This means that there is a substantial saving in time that was used for managing risk and deadlines.

Improve the team’s spirit, knowledge and throughput

The difference in projects is made by people, and people alone. No tool has ever proven to be successful without the passion and skill of the craftsman using it. Teams reach amazing results when the team spirit is there. Whether it is soccer, rugby or software development, teams need to sparkle to realize success.

Xebia's experience and passion for Agile Software development combined with Xebia's craftsmanship in Java, Web technologies, Flex, Portal and middleware architecture make it a pleasure to work with Xebia teams. To work with Xebia on Agile Adoption Projects means working together: Xebia learns about your Java knowledge, the specifics of your business and Xebia shares the technology skills of Java and Agile that have been built up at all earlier assignments and knowledge exchange sessions.