Can Agile Methodology work on a fixed bid project? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Today, as much as Agile is scoring over traditional methodologies like Waterfall, the customer demand for fixed bid (AKA fixed price) projects has not died down. Even though Agile significantly improves its success quotient due to improved communication/collaboration, rapid…
Benefits of going Open Source By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Open source software may be a buzz term in the technological sphere, but the concept is one with a rich history that pre-dates the internet and even the personal computer. For example, it was back in 1911 that Henry Ford won a…
Guide to lean software development By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Anyone who has been searching for more information about lean software development will have almost certainly been met by more difficult jargon, such as: lean principles; lean manufacturing; and Agile software development. So if you’re struggling to get your head around what…
Purple Paper: Contextualising Agile Development Methodologies By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 2 mins read During the discovery phase of any software development project here at Arrk Group, the team involved asks itself a standard series of questions, aimed at determining the best Agile methodology to adopt. There are numerous Agile methodologies which can be used…
Our Journey into Scrumban By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Here at Arrk Group we have adopted Scrumban methodologies over Scrum and other alternative development methodologies. Let’s take a look why we did, what we did and importantly what have been the benefits. Scrum and Kanban Since Agile was first conceived, many development…
Thirteen Great Ways to make your Offshore Project Fail | White Paper By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 3 mins read Way back in 2003, Arrk Group’s Executive Chairman Julian Howison was quoted in Computer Weekly (a June 24th article concerning the future impact of offshore on UK IT Services market) saying that when it comes…
White Paper | The 7 Deadly Web Application Security Sins By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 2 mins read The devil makes work for idle hands – or so the saying goes. Nowadays however, getting ‘hacked’ has become far more than being infiltrated by a bored bedroom geek. Indeed, cyber crime is now such big business…
Virtual Offshore Application Management By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 2 mins read Here’s a question. What’s your business’ greatest asset? You’ll probably say your staff – after all, without them you wouldn’t have a business at all, right? But do you know which staff are your most valuable? Which ones do you depend on to…
Retrospecting The Retrospectives With Distributed Teams By Vishal Prasad Thought Leadership 4 mins read So you have successfully completed a sprint with a majority of your deliverables accepted by your customers. What do you do next? It’s that point in time when you are ready to begin with your next adventure but only after that…
Driving Out Humdrum From Retrospectives By Vignesh Murthy Thought Leadership 3 mins read The Sprint Retrospective ceremony is one of the most important ceremonies for a scrum team as this is the time when the team reviews the sprint, ways of working, existing processes and comes up with improvements/actions which will help them in becoming…
