Suppose you run the shipping department for a company that ships products all over the world. You convinced upper management to buy a device for your department that weighs each package and detects its dimensions—width, length, and height—and shows the results on a display on the device’s font panel. All the shipping clerk has to do is read the information and enter it into the company’s shipping software, which calculates the rate and prints the shipping label.
Think, for a moment, about the dashboard in the vehicle you drive. Whether your vehicle is a 1973 AMC Gremlin, a yacht, or a Boeing 747, the characteristics are the same. They all provide:
Today, it seems that almost every software development organization employing more than one programmer subscribes to the Agile methodology. In fact, it’s difficult to find one that doesn’t. Given its pervasiveness now, it’s hard to remember that only a few years ago, Agile was a newfangled idea that only a few development shops were trying, while others dismissed it as a passing fad or were “waiting to see…”
Science fiction is littered with sentient, omnipresent computers that respond to voice commands. From the fatally flawed HAL 9000 of 2001: A Space Odyssey to the cool, confident Starship Enterprise computer to the snarky, easily distracted Heart of Gold computer in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, humans have imagined anthropomorphic computers that hear all, know all and control all.
Companies often have excellent in-house staff and resources, but they don’t have the capacity or the skills needed for a particular project. AndPlus is adept at staff and skills augmentation, and we have the results to prove it.
“What!? Can’t you see I’m busy? None of project development's stories are getting done on time and user features are still lagging behind.”
“I‘m sorry, sir. I know you're busy, but Mr. Petrov is on the phone. He says he may be able to help.”
“Who?”
“Sergei Petrov, our contact in Moscow.”
“Oh, that's unexpected. What’s he want?”
“He said it’s for your ears only. And it’s terribly important. Something about the MoSCoW method.”
