How can organizations benefit from Agile company-wide?
Over the last 10 years there has been a widespread, grassroots movement with development teams toward Agile processes to manage risk, collaborate with customers and embrace change during development. And, it's easy to see why. The fundamental principles of Agile development are good. Agile processes welcome changing requirements even late in development. Agile processes value greater collaboration between customers and development teams. Agile processes empower developers and motivate them to do their best work. Who doesn't want these things?
The challenges companies face aren't in the ideals of Agile. The challenges exist in trying to apply them in practice within enterprise organizations where the project teams are distributed, the projects are complex and high risk, or require detailed documentation for compliance.
The Agile Development Self-Assessment Checklist: Where do you have Challenges?
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Agile Resources:
- Tool: Try Contour free for 30 days for Agile Requirements Management
- Whitepaper: The Top 5 Challenges to Agile Planning
- Whitepaper: Cloudy with a Chance of Agile: Six Reasons to use Contour with Agile
Contour brings everyone together to embrace Agile across your organization.
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How do we align the business side of our organization with the Agile development team? What happens to requirements in an Agile process? How can we easily communicate with everyone what's going on? How do we ensure our contractual or compliance needs are met and properly tracked? Executives, business analysts, product owners and others involved in the planning of projects and releases often ask these questions and find Agile frustrating when it's only adopted by the development team. Jama Contour eliminates the communication gaps. |
Contour helps you achieve a shared vision of the plan.
Contour is a collaborative requirements management tool designed for distributed teams and large enterprise organizations. Contour is flexible to fit any development process from Waterfall to Agile and a hybrid of processes. As the only solution on the market with the Review Center, Contour helps you connect with stakeholders to review, collaborate and agree on the scope of projects to assure everyone has a shared vision of what the team is building and why.Try Contour on your Agile projects >
The key benefits of using Contour for Agile include:
- Give management, customers and other stakeholders better visibility into what's being built
- Align everyone with your Agile process from the requirements planning through to development and testing
- Maintain requirements best practices such as collaboration, traceability, change control and test coverage
- Define "just enough" requirements for high-level plan and then decompose into epics and stories
- Control scope and track changes throughout the development process
Integrate Contour with other Agile development tools:
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Jama Connector for JIRA and GreenhopperAtlassian JIRA and Greenhopper are used for defect tracking and Agile project management with development teams. An integration between Jama and JIRA connects product planning with product development and ensures consistency of data and end-to-end traceability from high-level requirements through to defects and tasks.Learn about the Jama + JIRA Integration > |
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Jama Connector for RallyRally is an Agile ALM platform used by developers to manage their sprints. Contour supports the formal processes required in enterprise organizations to align everyone with the shared vision and product releases. The integration between these two tools unites customer requirements through to stories and tasks, so that planning and development are always connected.Learn about the Jama + Rally Integration > |
Recorded Webinar: Tools that Support Agile Business Analysis - Hosted by iiBA
With the increasing use of Agile methodologies for software development, the tools used to support the development process are changing. In addition, Agile changes the role of the BA, so BA-specific tools are different in an Agile world. This webinar will look specifically at tools designed to help BAs execute BA activities within an Agile environment.Presenters: Tom Karasmanis & Derwyn Harris
Duration: 30 minutes
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How-to Video: Learn how to use Agile for Contour.Watch the quick 5-minute video and learn how to adopt Agile in Contour.See the flexibility of Contour, and how it fits into your Agile process. |
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We use a variant of an agile method for development. We use Contour to track which requirements are in the current Sprint as well as a relative priority for when we want unimplemented features developed. - Kevin DeVries, Lead Developer, Vertical Power |
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