Agile development

Agile development has gone mainstream. Successful Agile teams show impressive increases in team efficiency, shorter development cycles, better quality software, and software better suited to customer needs.

Agile development, once considered a solution suited only for small, co-located teams, is gaining traction with larger development organisations. But larger teams who want to adopt Agile practices face unique challenges.

To achieve agility "at scale," teams must manage increasing application complexity, address gaps in communication to encourage collaboration, and automate functional silos to enable an iterative development process.

IBM® Rational® provides technology, best practices, and industry expertise to help companies succeed in an Agile development environment - regardless of their size and complexities.

Rational can help you:

• Create efficient development processes and workflows to meet the unique needs of your project
• Integrate flexibly with existing development tools
• Improve product quality by pinpointing quality issues earlier in the lifecycle
• Automate handoffs and provide real-time information so teams work together more productively
• Share processes, best practices, and resources between teams for high levels of efficiency
• Empower developers with pre-flight build support to improve quality and increase the frequency of code check-ins
• Accelerate build management processes for significantly faster builds
• Get a single, consolidated view of your project so you can monitor project progress and take corrective action when needed