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Get Agile With Westboro Systems!
Your Agile Development Team In Ottawa
Agile development delivers business value sooner by focusing on the key qualities that lead to innovation, productivity, and quality. Every Agile team we work with is different. Your corporate culture, your skills base, your objectives, and even your products come down to one common element – people.
Westboro Systems Agile development, Ottawa combines Agile methodologies and proven experience in Agile training and Agile coaching to bring out the best in government adoption of Agile and enterprise Agile development clients.
If “the best”, for you, means effective communication, decreased attrition, increased productivity, and maximized return on investment, you’ve come to the right place – Westboro Systems is Ottawa’s choice for Agile solutions and project management.
Agile Software Development Training
We have a number of workshops to bring Agile skills to your teams, from introductory Agile training to advanced technical skills workshops. Using a hands-on approach these courses start with the motivations for Agile through to practical examples of using Agile in your teams.Agile Coaching
Coaching is an excellent complement to Agile Training. Working closely with your teams we ensure that you use the Agile practices effectively, avoiding the mistakes that teams new to Agile commonly make. We look at all aspects of delivering the system or product from strategy and business engagement to automated tools and build systems. We can start with kicking-off a new project or work with a project in progress.
The Latest from our Blogs
Agile Ottawa
Expect MORE – How Motivated, Open, Results-focused, and Enthusiastic people are created
Monday, 23 August 2010, 4:17 pm
The kickoff meeting for the 2010-2011 Agile Ottawa season is on Tuesday, September 14th. We are gathering at 6:00pm for some networking with the session starting at 6:30pm. Location is Adobe’s offic. […]
Source: Agile Ottawa | Glenn WatersMeetup followed by Agile Conference Planning
Friday, 4 June 2010, 2:01 pm
If you are interested in helping to organize a Agile Conference to be held here in Ottawa then a group of people will be gathering following the Agile Ottawa Meetup on Tuesday night (June 8th). We wil. […]
Source: Agile Ottawa | Glenn WatersAgile Games Nights: Tuesday June 8th
Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 7:30 pm
Play is serious business. Play at work can help make us smarter and more creative. Play also helps us build stronger relationships which support self-organization, trust and innovation. Ellen Grove. […]
Source: Agile Ottawa | Glenn WatersOttawa Scrum User Group Meetup: User Story Breakdown Activities
Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 12:17 pm
Announcing a new Meetup for Ottawa Scrum Users Group! What: User Story Breakdown Activities When: Thursday, May 27, 2010 6:30 PM Where: Embotics 411 Legget Drive suite 502 Ottawa, ON K1A 0A1 It’s ti. […]
Source: Agile Ottawa | Glenn Waters
Practical Agility
Necessary Friction
Friday, 27 August 2010, 2:42 pm
Agile the Agile 2010 conference, Mark Levison commented on Twitter how he felt that the Agile community was fragile. He believes that some of the current friction between the Kanban and Scrum communit. […]
Source: Practical Agility | Dave RooneyA Completely Unncessary Miracle
Wednesday, 18 August 2010, 10:38 am
From USA Today:A Boeing 737 operated by Colombian carrier Aires split apart in a crash-landing on a Caribbean island just after midnight this morning. And, in what local officials are calling a "mirac. […]
Source: Practical Agility | Dave RooneyAgile 2010 - Lack of Technical Sessions
Monday, 16 August 2010, 12:01 pm
There has been some discussion and even minor ranting about the lack of technical content at Agile 2010 in Orlando:Uncle Bob Martin:Programmers started the agile movement to get closer to customers no. […]
Source: Practical Agility | Dave RooneyAgile 2010 Review
Sunday, 15 August 2010, 3:11 pm
I'm still in Florida as I write this, enjoying a weekend with friends near Tampa to help wind down after the conference. I must say that the humidity on the Gulf coast is much lower than in Orlando!Fo. […]
Source: Practical Agility | Dave Rooney
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Upcoming Public Courses
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Agile Tips & Techniques
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Simple Design
A program built using an Agile process should be the simplest program that meets the current requirements. There is not much building for the future. Instead, the focus is on providing business value. Of course it is necessary to ensure that a good design is used, and in Agile this is brought about through Refactoring. [...]
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Automated Testing Enables Agility
Automating tests at the unit and acceptance level are the "grease that helps the wheel turn" on Agile teams. Does automated testing take extra time? When you're first starting, yes. However, you must consider automated testing an investment that will bring significant returns in the medium and long term, at the expense of some short [...]
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Watch for Technical Debt
Any code base will contain build up Technical Debt over time. This is even more true for code that does not have any automated tests. You can easily see the symptoms of Technical Debt: Velocity begins to erode – the team spends as much or more time fixing defects as they do adding new functionality [...]
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