Agile development

Agile development is here to stay. Successful Agile teams show impressive increases in team efficiency, lower development costs, faster time to market, better quality software, systems better suited to customer needs, and repeatable results.

Agile development is a solution for any team wanting to regularly produce high quality software in a cost effective and timely manner. Teams can adopt and improve their Agile strategies for their unique needs and challenges.

You can be as agile as you need to be whether you are adopting agile for the first time and your goal is to develop a high-quality system in a self-organizing manner or you are ready to extend your agile development to address a full software and system lifecycle. Some teams may need to address scaling factors such as team size, geographical distribution or regulatory compliance.

IBM® Rational® provides an agile solution that includes agile practices, process improvement services, training and mentoring services, and products to help companies succeed in an Agile development environment - regardless of their agile maturity level.

Rational can help you:

• Create agile development processes and workflows to meet the unique needs of your project organizations

• Improve stakeholder and delivery team collaboration, to ensure deliverables are always aligned to business priorities

• Integrate flexibly with existing development tooling and processes

• 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