An Effective Model of Process and Best Practices 1. Introduction This a report of my experiences and findings during an eight month industrial internship placement (Jan 2014 to August 2014) at SeisWare International Inc: an “industry leader in the development, sales and support of seismic interpretation software” [1]. In particular, it is a company that focuses on exploration and production in the oil and gas industry through the support and development of its software package. Contained within this package are varied applications which provide the tools and utilities needed to streamline a geophysicist’s workflow. My responsibilities as a junior software developer at SeisWare included the maintaining of preexisting features, as well as …show more content…
enSeisWare can be taken as an example which advocates for the sharing of certain testing and coding work tasks by both QA and Development. Both manual testing and the creation of automated tests are to be shared and completed by both positions. Benefits resulting from this system include prevention of bottlenecks in certain stages of the software development cycle as well as shared accountability between team members for the work completed. In the previous example, there might be a differentiation between QA and Dev testing (ie. QA’s might have better black box perspective to testing) but contrasting feedback is presented. Furthermore, this system allows for team members to experience all aspects involved in the software development cycle and allows input by everyone. A cohesive team mentality is encouraged and obstacles inhibiting work are removed. 2.2 Adapting Process The effectiveness of the agile approach within a company is relative to the ability in which processes and procedures can be adjusted to better fit its needs. A key factor for adopting successful agile is through the encouragement of a constantly changing environment where changes can happen frequently, become accepted as the norm, and be easily integrated into the process. Process formalities are frequently revised to meet the needs within SeisWare. As a case scenario there was a point in time dedicated for bug fixing during the release cycle which
Agile processes do not devote much time up front to formal system specifications, but rather relies on continuous communication with the customer throughout the development process. The process accounts for the fact that needs often change or cannot be fully developed early on and is flexible to this. (+)
So, there is an urgent need to reduce the time spent on working by each employee with the project work. This can be done with the help of introducing a proper software development process and implementing it successfully.
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sections of the software and how to troubleshoot if problems arose. I also was the instructor for teaching the C.N.A.'s how to implement
Agile techniques should be used to solve the current issues faced by the company as agile techniques normally being used by the software industry help the business to act in response under the unpredictable situations faced. In Agile methodologies opportunities are been provided to evaluate whether the project is under the direction all through its development cycle. All this is being accomplished with the help of regular tempo kept in work, and the teams must show a product which is having the desired potential.
A process improvement and implementation plan (PIP) is designed to help companies analyze their present business processes by ascertaining probable complications within their selected procedures. This extensive process will also help the company to identify and improve their business standards, intentions, and give them the golden opportunity to correct potential difficulties within the chosen processes. The process improvement and implementation plan will also allow the company to ensure that each phase will not be subjugated before the project is successfully completed.
Given the growing interest to process concepts and models in leadership research, and considering the four leadership loci which are introduced in the Integrative Process Model by eberly et al (2013, as well as the need to focus on leadership as an interactive process whose leader is one of its actors, we present the framework of leadership process in the figure (1).
Agile is an iterative and incremental (evolutionary) approach to software development which is performed in a highly collaborative manner by self-organizing teams within an effective governance framework, with "just enough" ceremony, that produces high quality solutions, in a cost effective and timely manner which meets the changing needs of its stakeholders [1].
The majority of the Felician University’s future recurring application changes will be minor version upgrades to the applications. Version upgrades, issues, and bug fixes are handled directly by the software vendors. Felician University does not have access to the source code and therefore does not have the ability to modify these proprietary packages. All issues, bug fixes, and modifications are completed by the software vendors. Version upgrades are included as part of vendor maintenance agreements. The IT Manager and/or business system owner are notified via email when version upgrades are available, then a CD is mailed or a download link is sent to the client upon request. Release notes come with each upgrade and/or service pack.
In agile projects, various stakeholders (IT and Business teams) need to collaborate to share information and clarifications for common understanding about the various type of changes in various stages of the project. If IT and Business teams don’t collaborate regularly during the project, then it is difficult to identify and manage the various types of changes (i.e. requirement changes) that can come up during the project. Effective collaboration is very important when there are changes in the project {Maruping, 2009 #2416}. A weak IT -Business collaboration is an agility inhibitor in software development {Vidgen, 2009 #2414}. This collaborative decision making approach among various stakeholders is necessary for anticipating and responding
Refocusing the effort on a population set that was within discovery brought to the forefront a number of issues concerning software application technical support. First, supporting these applications was necessary for the organization to function, yet the
I started my career as a Software Developer working for MetricStream where I worked on their proprietary platform “AppStudio”. “AppStudio” is a rapid application development tool which is built on top of another tool called “Enterprise Governance Risk Compliance Platform”(EGRCP) . Both these tools very tightly coupled together and most of my work involved adding new features and widgets to this tool.
The purpose of this report is to define and discuss the use of agile methodologies. Agile is becoming a more popular term within the information technology industry and this report will help those unfamiliar with its techniques understand how agile works. The goal is also to inform the readers why agile can be preferred over traditional methods. While reading this report, it is recommended to keep in mind that agile is an alternative to using the traditional systems development lifecycle method.
In conclusion, agile software development is a very exciting and useful approach, although some project suit agile more than others. The collaboration and visibility can provide a much better and rewarding experience for the team to develop software products. Over the last years, many companies dramatically improved their performances
Business Process Model is a set of technologies and standards for the design, execution, administration, and monitoring of business processes. (Havey 2005)