Agile Center of Excellence (AgileCOE)

The Agile Center of Excellence (AgileCOE) will equip a development organization with the principles and procedures that provide for the successful delivery of all enterprise applications. The AgileCOE provides expertise and thought leadership around agile development techniques.

Goals

Adaptive Development Methodology
Improve Quality of Requirements
Leverage Precision Modeling Techniques
Reduce overall development cost
Improve quality of applications
Shorten development schedules
Improve organizational communication
Allow for changing business needs

Objectives and Strategy to Achieve Goals

Achieving the AgileCOE goals is done using an incremental and iterative approach. Each increment defines additional detail and a higher level of achievement. All stakeholders are included in the steps toward implementing an adaptive process allowing for accurate requirements capture and improved modeling. As additional methodology needs are addressed, business and development teams' knowledge is increased. The result is an agile methodology tailored to your enterprise’s needs and allowing for continual improvement.

The COE concentrates on these objectives:

Implementation of an agile development process allowing for accurate requirements and improved modeling
Increasing employee expertise around application development without the continual and primary reliance on external consultants
Establishing itself as the authoritative group on application methodology for development groups to use and as a resource
Becoming a proactive group guiding application development to success rather that reacting to arising problems
Defining solutions and practices applicable to enterprise application
Improving the baseline skills of the company's development staff
Creating an environment that promotes communication between the business analysts and development teams
Improving communication between management and development staff
Improved capabilities around scoping development efforts

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