Do any of these project barriers sound familiar? Insufficient and unqualified resources, misunderstood requirements, rigorous lifecycle process delays, RFI/RFP processes, and a lack of executive business and IT support. The IBM Accelerated Solution Delivery Model (ASD) demonstrates merit by driving weeks and months out of traditional project delivery cycles for time critical business initiatives that have a large ROI.
Accelerated Solution Delivery Services (ASD) is the modern movement around revolutionizing software development based on optimized best practices that have been relevant for many years through rapid or spiral development approaches. The Agile Manifesto was published in 2001 and there are multiple methods that have become very popular since that time. Implementing the ASD model involves people, processes and technology. agile, scalable processes and work products, accelerator usage tracked with project metrics, standard development platforms and tools, collaboration tools, and dedicated teams supported by specialists are all critical factors that can optimize solution delivery success for your time critical initiatives.
Key ASD components that remove or reduce time to market barriers includes the right skills at the right time in the right ratio; facilitated sessions and co-location of business and IT; organization focused only on project delivery using all known best practices; proactive versus reactive mindset; and iterative and incremental project, release and program delivery.
Business challenges
Highlights
- Optimize project delivery without pushing work offshore.
- Deliver higher quality solutions faster.
- Make IT department more responsive to business speed-to-market needs.
- Reduce large project backlog.
- Regain control of project budgets while being responsive to needs of the business.
Service detail
ASD services that we offer
- Agile Assessment: Two to three week assessment of an agile project or traditional organization that identifies the drivers for, and constraints to, successful agile project delivery. Conduct interviews, measure conformance to ASD agile best practices (and client agile method in use), produce findings and recommend next steps.
- Agile Project Delivery: Deliver a project, or program of many agile projects, at the client site, or at an IBM Center for Innovation, using select ASD best practices and accelerators.
- Agile Transformation: Quickly establish or refine a client site agile initiative, tailor IBM ASD training and processes for the clients needs, and pilot several projects to demonstrate the agile value proposition. Develop plans to grow to the capacity required.
Why IBM
IBM began implementing agile best practices with outstanding results with our Accelerated Solution Delivery (ASD) model three years before "The Agile Manifesto" was published. Since 1998, we have had a dedicated initiative focused on the optimization and continuous improvement of ASD through engagements with our clients and the evolution of agile external to IBM. Our results have been outstanding. When we have had an opportunity to measure against a distinct baseline of past performance, we have been able to substantially reduce time-to-market of better quality solutions. IBM has also been successful in leveraging IBM Global Delivery Centers in India and Brazil to further reduce costs on Accelerated Solution Delivery projects.
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