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BEST TOOLS FOR AGILE & NEARSHORING

Agenda

• Introduction

• How to maximize value of near-shoring

• Process: Recap of key Agile principles

• Tools: Key requirements

• Recommended tools

• Q&A session

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Agenda

• Introduction

• How to maximize value of near-shoring

• Process: Recap of key Agile principles

• Tools: Key requirements

• Recommended tools

• Q&A session

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Consultant profile

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Yuriy Kudin • Ciklum Technical Consultant • Certified Scrum Master • IPMA certified project manager with technical

background • Development Tools/Practices expert

Yuriy is more than 7 years experience in software development and project management. Yuriy has strong experience in managing of various kind of projects based on T&M and fixed cost contracts. Using classic and Agile methodologies in different business domains (Insurance, bank, e-commerce, government, mobile applications, sound processing etc) for customers in Europe and the USA.

Consulting office

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Agenda

• Introduction

• How to maximize value of near-shoring

• Process: Recap of key Agile principles

• Key requirements for tools

• Recommended tools

• Q&A session

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Efficiency of near-shoring

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Costs / Availability

of Skilled Resources

Costs

for Communications

and collaboration

Efficiency distributed development

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PROCESS

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Tools

Tools in SW development

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Tasks

Team Product owner

Knowledge base

Source Code

Development

Environment

Tools

PROCESS

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• Introduction

• How to maximize value of near-shoring

• Process: Recap of key Agile principles

• Tools: Key requirements

• Recommended tools

• Q&A session

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Key benefits of Agile

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Faster ROI

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Lower Risk

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Lower Defect Density

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More Transparency & Better Visibility

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No Frills Approach

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Frameworks overview

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SCRUM

KANBAN XP

SCRUM at glance

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Agenda

• Introduction

• How to maximize value of near-shoring

• Process: Recap of key Agile principles

• Tools: Key requirements

• Recommended tools

• Q&A session

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Requirements for tools

What are requirement for distributed agile development tools ?

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Web oriented

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Multi user support

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Easy to use

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Integration with other tools

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Cost effective

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Agenda

• Introduction

• How to maximize value of near-shoring

• Process: Recap of key Agile principles

• Tools: Key requirements

• Recommended tools

• Q&A session

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Version control

Microsoft stack Free tools Commercial tools

Tools we will talk about

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Knowledge base

Issue tracking

Continuous integration

Q&A

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Contacts

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Yuri Kudin Technical consultant Consulting Office (CSC)

P +38 044 545 77 45 (ext. 2348) M +38 097 922 76 79 E yuk@ciklum.com W www.ciklum.com/consulting S ykudin

We would be glad to answer your questions!

Appendix 1

Screenshots of the tools

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Knowledge base: Confluence

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Knowledge base: Confluence

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Knowledge base: Share point

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Knowledge base: Redmine

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Backlog & Requirements: JIRA

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Backlog & Requirements: TFS

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Backlog & Requirements: TFS

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Backlog & Requirements: Redmine

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Task board: JIRA

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Task board: TFS

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Task board: TFS

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Redmine: task board

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JIRA: charts

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TFS: Charts

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Integration & Deployment: TeamCity

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Integration & Deployment: TeamCity

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Integration & Deployment: TFS

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Integration & Deployment: TFS

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Integration & Deployment: Jenkins

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Version control

Free Easy to use IDE integration Extensions via hooks Cross-platform server IDE integration

In active development with solid support

Native integration with MS products

Free cloud version for small teams

Free Approach with

distributed repository Famous cloud solution

(Git Hub) Simple merge IDE integration Cross platform server

× Approach with central repository

× Complicated merge

× Resource consuming × Server is under

Windows only

× A lot of branches producing overhead with CI configuration

× Additional education for developers

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