4 Steps to Agile Development Success for Vice President or Director of Development

As a Vice President or Director of Development, you need to align the deliveries of separate teams with the goals of the business and enable rapid, iterative development processes across the enterprise. And, you require complete visibility across the entire development process. That’s why we’ve put together a toolkit to help you jumpstart your Agile adoption. Fill out the form below to get Rally’s free Vice President and Director of Development Toolkit delivered straight to your inbox.

Step 1: Learn the Basics

First, learn the basics with this set of resources, specifically designed for VPs or Directors of Development, including:

“Principles of Agile Architecture” white paper: This white paper discusses the role of “Intentional Architecture” in the development of enterprise-class systems built using Agile methods and techniques.

“Principles of Agile Architecture: Intentional Architecture in Enterprise Class Systems” Webinar: The continuous refactoring of emerging-only architectures in large systems becomes less practical as the system size and complexity grows, influencing a natural desire to minimize unnecessary refactoring as well as to build systems of components that work in a like manner. In this on-demand Web seminar, learn about seven core principles that can be applied to Agile development of enterprise-class systems.

“Flow, Pull, Innovate: The Secrets to Agile Adoption” Webinar: In this on-demand Web seminar, you’ll learn how your team, teams or entire organization can take advantage of Agile and lean, with the goal of rapid learning and collaboration to achieve the greatest innovation with the least risk of failure.

“Stop Thinking So Small with Agile” Webinar: This on-demand Web seminar will take you through a view of system archetypes that can help you better understand the problems intrinsic in delivering software, and the Agile solutions to attack these.

Step 2: Train Team and Pilot Tool

Train your team in record time by participating in online Agile jumpstart training with one of Rally's in-house Agile coaches. Then, begin your pilot project on Rally Enterprise, Rally's platform for complete Agile lifecycle management.

Step 3: Prove Agile Cost Savings with Rally’s Productivity Calculator and “The Agile Impact Report”

Prove cost savings of your Agile investment with a third-party study on the productivity of Agile teams and our Productivity Calculator. The study concluded that, as compared to industry averages, development teams using Agile practices were 37 percent faster to market, 16 percent more productive and able to maintain normal defect counts despite significant schedule compression.

The Productivity Analysis Calculator was designed to help companies and development teams analyze potential savings in time, money, and efficiency by using Agile and Rally solutions.

Step 4: Implementation

Replace your other tools with Rally’s Programmable Platform. By delivering a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) architecture specifically for software lifecycle management, Rally provides software-driven organizations with a programmable platform that extends the Rally application, connects disparate role-based tools and shares Rally data and views with other applications and Web portals.