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The Agile Cooperative
The Agile Cooperative is focused on helping organizations leverage agile ideas and methodologies such as Scrum, XP, and test-driven development to add value sooner. The Agile Cooperative brings together decades of experience, expertise, and knowledge to ensure customers receive excellent results from every engagement. Offering the advantage of broad expertise, we ensure that you and your teams are receiving the best available coaching, consulting, and training in the industry.
- Tired of waiting until your projects are complete to recognize value?
- Interested in taking your agile initiative to the next level?
- Concerned that you're wasting valuable resources on the wrong projects?
- Considering agile but overwhelmed by the seemingly endless options?
Agile Teams Overcome Challenges
Having worked on successful and "challenged" waterfall, iterative, and agile projects, the reality is that the longer projects take, the longer you have to wait to recognize value. Why do we prefer agile approaches? At it simplest, because agile projects recognize value faster.
New and changing requirements are two of the most commonly cited reasons projects fail or are over budget. Fixing these issues tends to focus on how to prevent change or spending more time documenting requirements. The real question is, "Why are the requirements missing or wrong"? There are quite a few reasons, but at the core is the recognition that people are not sure what they want. When asked about a new product, most people are not sure exactly what they want and need unless they can see it (a bit of the chicken or the egg).
Changing requirements are an issue on every software development project and any other project that is developing a new product. The issues however have more to do with trying to lock in all the requirements early, instead of embracing change.
Requirements on a software project will change and be added. That is a fact. So figuring out how to leverage change for success is the larger question!
A few of the ways we seek to answer this question include:
- Significant customer involvement
- Delivering working results in shorter iterations (30 days)
- Real prioritization of features by the customer
- Team driven iterations
- Supportive organizational management team
Still skeptical? We don't blame you! Some customers point out that even with the customer involved, projects still fail. Implementing only one or two agile concepts is not going to "fix everything." It may improve your success incrementally or not.
We see the critical turning point in increased value when customers begin delivering working software and value every thirty days. When your customer has been involved in the process and can see and use working software 30 days after that first meeting - that's really when everyone gets it.
Please Contact Us for more information or to ask us tough questions.
Agile Cooperative World Class Team
Agile For All
Agile for All, founded by Bob Hartman, is a consulting and training firm dedicated to helping companies utilize agile in the most effective manner possible instead of doing pieces and parts without understanding the nuances involved. Agile for All is based in Denver, CO.
Agile Institute
Emphasizing “helping people create quality software, one team at a time,” Agile Institute provides coaching and training in Agile techniques, Object-Oriented design, and sane work environments. Based in the San Francisco Bay area.
Techniques of Design
Founded by top technical instructor David Bernstein, Techniques of Design helps software developers learn how to design and develop software that is easier to maintain and extend. Based in Bellevue, WA.
Humanizing Work
Founded by Certified Scrum Coach Richard Lawrence, Humanizing Work is a consulting firm dedicated to making software organizations happier and more productive using principles and practices from agile, Lean, and the Theory of Constraints. Based in Denver, CO.
Effective Agile Development
Rod Claar, founder of Effective Agile Development, is a software development coach and instructor with broad experience in Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Scrum and Agile methodologies. He specializes in coordinating large teams and large projects to increase return on investment through Agile principles and practices. Based in Seattle, WA.
VimStreet
VimStreet is a consulting firm focused on streamlining business processes and delivering technology solutions to improve organizations. Jake Calabrese, a Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP) recipient and founder of VimStreet, believes that every organization needs to answer the question “What does business improvement mean to us?” before making an improvement investment. Based in Denver, CO.
You can learn more at the Agile Cooperative website or by contacting us with any questions you may have!