Gamification is the concept of adding gaming principles to non-gaming environments to increase participation. It is an attempt to create an environment that influences team members’ behaviors and improves productivity and engagement. The participants experience joy and motivation while playing games. According to a study by Tech Report, gamification improved [...]
Agile welcomes changes in requirements, even late in the development process. The focus is on delivering a product that provides the most value, and changes are opportunities for improvement. Organizations in continuous transformations and transitions favor agile. Every organization targets a Mature Agile state and a high-performing Agile team and [...]
Embracing digital transformation necessitates teams juggling multiple problems, such as the need for quick change despite ambiguous limitations and complicated interdependencies. It’s a problem that software developers are all too familiar with. Attempting to solve these problems using a standard waterfall strategy, in which tasks are completed in a linear [...]
‘Deliver Quality at Speed’ is the success mantra in the current highly competitive digital business world. The traditional approaches for software development divide development and testing into two steps – developers build a feature, and then the QA team tests it for defects. As the product grows, the testing [...]
Disruption doesn’t send meeting invites! Xerox learned about it. Kodak was doomed with it. Encyclopedia Britannica never knew it coming. Nokia gave into it! And, Googles of the world can disrupt themselves. RajendraPrasad Thota, Global Practice Head – Advisory & Transformation at Cigniti in this blog post explains how the [...]
Agile software development is an iterative and collaborative approach that divides the overall development process into smaller parts, or “sprints.” An increasing number of organizations across the globe are adopting agile, considering that it’s an effective way to design robust applications that are resistant to cyber-attacks. Agile is going global [...]
Agile software development practices have been gaining momentum over the last few years. A recent survey by VersionOne, carried out between July and October 2014, states that 94% of all organizations surveyed (out of 3925 responses) now practice agile. Agile practices are preferred where project requirements change rapidly as it [...]
