Software Development Methodologies: What works for the Shinetech team?

At Shinetech, we use the Agile SCRUM framework for delivering software to our global client base as a highly effective way to collaborate as a team with our customers.

Agile focuses on engaging the right people on projects from day one and emphasizes maintaining the stability of teams once they are formed. This enables our teams to build project and business knowledge, based on close collaboration with our customers.

Typically requirements are gathered by developing a product backlog of high-level user stories. User stories are expanded by the developers or analysts within the development team, with close collaboration with our customer (who acts as Product Owner, to use the Agile terminology). In this way, Shinetech technicians can apply their expertise to define technical solutions to requirements.

By frequently prioritizing the product backlog, requirements are transformed into solutions that rapidly form a working core solution. During planning for each sprint (the iterative time periods for the development work), development team members commit to delivering requirement tasks, rather than being allocated tasks.

Development team members are cross-functioning, which enables architects, testers, and developers to contribute beyond their normal skillset, which enhances flexibility and team collaboration.

Working with an Agile environment for software development, Shinetech development team members can better understand their customer’s project and industry and provide the most effective technical solutions to targeted business requirements.