Development With Agile and Cloud Computing

 

Agile methodology was introduced to help software developing organizations and teams to work efficiently, think differently, learn and re-learn from iterations, and deliver solutions on time. To achieve this agile is provided with core values and principles.  But even with this agile always tries to collaborate and involve other effective concepts and methods that can provide them achieve their goals. One such technology agile uses now to obtain faster delivery without defects is cloud computing.

Agile concepts and principles can never be fully implemented due to rapidly changing requirements in the market and terms that work in a distributed environment. This creates an interruption in agile like scalability, transparency, smooth control of development, face-to-face communication, expert availability, resource management, and application building from different locations. These changing requirements demand a continuous environment for experimenting or testing ideas which increases the development cost.

Cloud computing provides this environment to carry out this testing of ideas in a cost-efficient way. It has the potential to carry out ideas testing reducing the cost with help of the distributed application, providing infrastructure, data sharing, and prioritizing tasks.

Cloud computing helps agile eliminate the installation procedure, re-installation, and software patches whereas, it also provides storage and computing resource. Agile gets extended with cloud computing to faster delivery, increased software quality, and lowering cost.

Agile has developed the methodology of concentrating on small cycles and iteration development based on time-to-time feedback from customers. The actual users continuously check the development created by agile methodology. Industries today are using agile and cloud computing together to improve the pace of development operations. The organizations must use agile methodology when;

·       There is no idea how the end product must be like

·       The main focus is on quick production of the product

·       There is a skilled, adaptable, and independent decision-maker workforce available

·       The organization wants to make the customer-centric working system

·       Continuous monitoring of the process and reduction by eliminating waste process can be applicable

·       The team wants to meet the customer’s expectations in quality and also deliver an on-time product

When Agile and cloud computing are combined they provide the best-suited option. Cloud Computing is the perfect ambiance for agile methodology in today’s time. These combinations bring rapid valuable functionality to customers, help in collecting instant feedback, and make changes based on the received feedback. This agile and cloud computing combination for a rapid development cycle cannot be achieved or implemented in conventional cycles because of its high-cost distribution.  Let’s see how agile and cloud computing when combined will give organizations the advantages one by one.

Benefits of Agile and Cloud Computing

·       Minimizes cost of information transfer from one person to another

·       High workload stability

·       Provides high flexibility for development change and management plans

·       Helps in producing a large-scale product with a fixed number of developers or employees

·       It helps enhance morale, unity, and integrity among team members

·       Implementing earlier customer feedback provides higher quality products

·       Reduction in time of decision making and observing their results respectively

·       Documentation is replaced with actual communication and whiteboards

We have seen how agile now is not only limited to software development but has reached every possible industry whether it's food, automobile, or banking and finance. The question thus arises now is does this combination of agile and cloud computing will also benefit this other industry.

The answer to it is,

Yes!

The benefits agile provides to software developing organizations and also same or sometimes more provide to other industries, similarly agile- cloud computing provides benefits to other industries.

This cloud computing along with agile provides way beyond imagination benefits to automobile, manufacturing, logistic, supply chain, banking and finance, and many more industries when applied. As now every industry is transforming toward digitization and automation, agile methodology and cloud computing combined can be used to transform businesses in every industry into this new generation of business.

Agile and cloud computing lightweight methods can be used in every industry for problem-solving, faster delivery, and process improvement along with organization growth and employee individual growth. Cloud computing is essential with agile for teams when they plan to produce products via continuous delivery and integration. Cloud computing helps to make agile more of a parallel activity rather than linear. The virtual serves also help in the delay of necessities. Agile and cloud computing takes the organization to another level of agility to obtain the most possible benefits in business.

About Advance Agility

We, at Advance Agility, are the new-age Agile Coaching, Consulting and IT services company. We enable end-to-end Digital Transformation. Agile execution is integral to our being. We are doing SAFe implementation with small, medium and large organization across the globe. Our vision is to be the leading Agile execution player globally. To keep adding value at every process stage. We are on a mission to empower our clients, move from concept to cash in the shortest sustainable lead time by adopting human centric approach to business agility. Embracing the change is in our DNA. Things that keep us apart are Quicker and Seamless execution with End-to-end gamut of services. Our Global presence and Stellar Track Record give us an edge over our competitor.

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