C Chitti Pantulu, Bangalore, March 02, 2009
DNA
Taking a leaf out of rugby rule books, a bunch of techies working out of Bangalore are seeking to put the 'sprint' back into the IT services business by 'scrumming' workable code in the shortest possible time to meet client needs.
With the economic turmoil, customers have often been unable to commit investments, and decided to withdraw IT projects midway. Moreover, many are now demanding that IT vendors do more with less, that too in a shorter timeframe. That is exactly what agile software development does.
Though around for many years, new economic realities are making the need felt for agile software development -- a framework that breaks up the project into chunks resulting in smaller packets of shippable code within the shortest possible time, sometimes even a week.
"It has become relevant because business cycles are changing very fast and customers are not sure if they want to be involved in engagements with an uncertain future," said Bob Sarni, agile practice leader at the $1.2 billion US-based systems integration firm Ciber Inc, who was here last week to evangalise the concept.
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