Agile Teams: Faster and Cheaper Development?
Hello, and welcome back to the latest Trio Insight! This week, we're looking at a critical component of successful software development: how you can build a strong and effective agile development team.
Agile teams help you build quality fast! This makes them an obvious choice to get ahead.
At Trio, we have thoroughly vetted specialists in many fields, ready to go, which you can integrate in a pinch to complete your team through staff augmentation.
Let's look at how to build the best teams possible!
To build agile teams, you need to find people with all the skills you need! Then, you create an environment where they can work together to build what you need and to do it as quickly as possible.
Here are the basic principles of agile teams so you can decide if they are right for you:
👥Find Cross-Functional Team Members: By getting someone for everything you need to do - like a coder and a UX designer - you always have an expert on hand to give you a quality product.
📞Open Communication: Regular check-ups and feedback loops can be used to ensure transparent project management, which makes everyone feel like they're in the loop and adds to overall developer satisfaction and performance.
🔥Adaptability: By encouraging adaptability, your agile team can handle changes and shift their priorities to handle what's most urgent.
📋Trust and Transparency: When everyone knows what they need to do and how it fits into the bigger picture, work flows smoothly and quickly. The same can be said for when everyone trusts one another to do what they should.
📩Continuous Collaboration: When things change all the time, continuous communication and collaboration help everyone work towards a common goal and stay motivated, giving you the best output but also giving you a heads up when things go south.
If you want to learn more about how an agile team can help you stay ahead of your competition and make you stand out to consumers, check out our full article on Building Awesome Agile Software Development Teams.
Are computers always reliable? Apparently not! A proposed amendment in the UK is challenging this assumption after software errors affected some high-profile cases.
This serves as a powerful reminder. You need to test your software, double-check reporting, etc. Depending on the sector you're in, it might just be a legal requirement in the future!
Is AI changing how we program? A startup, Tessl, believes the future of the industry is AI-native software development platforms. And they've just managed to raise $750 million to help them build this platform.
This is just one example of why you need to make sure your developers are devoting time to continuous learning to stay at the industry forefront in this time of rapid change!
Staff augmentation is more than just a buzzword! It could be one of the best ways to build your Agile team without wasting money keeping permanent staff when the work is done.
You can bring someone on temporarily who integrates with your existing team and fills in any gaps. Usually, this is an almost instant process, so there's no time wasted.
Sound like something you would be interested in? Need to fill in a skill gap quickly but don't have the resources for a permanent hire? Reach out to us to find the right person for your needs.
We have some of the top talent!
That's it for this Trio Insight! We hope you've found value as you consider how to get your products out faster or fill in skill gaps.
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Until next week - stay Agile!
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