Bringing Agility

At the beginning of the new year, WoodRanch Tech (WRT) team of seasoned professionals has opened new series of blogs to identify, analyze and address many software development challenges experienced today by project managers, product managers, developers, and other stake holders. We will open discussions about YOUR challenges and experiences. And we will guide you to solutions through exploring best and worst practices seen at organizations of all sizes.

WRT’s blogs in 2010 will be about people, teams, ALM, agile project management, SCRUM, XP, systems, engineering best practices, ideas from other disciplines, ways to improve, program management and all related fields. We will contribute a wide experience in various agile methodologies, RUP and waterfall to our blog discussions. Your ideas for additional topics are always welcome!

We have been successfully running agile scrum and XP projects for more than a decade and helped management and engineers at many large companies like Yahoo, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Digital Insight (Intuit), Tata and many startups like Webvan to improve their processes and meet their objectives – while being lightweight and agile. We have also helped a company gain ISO 9000 and CMM level 5 certification.

We are not just consultants and trainers that simply convey concepts and discuss problems experienced by others. We are practitioners who have faced the same challenges as you do. Each of us have led engineering teams, architected highly advanced distributed software systems, coded, built, implemented the systems in production, managed support and QA teams, taken products to market using agile, lean and other management and engineering best practices for over two decades.

We look forward to sharing the principles we apply daily in our work with you – our own software development practices and the most successful practices of other organizations.