Agile Project Management

Your challenges 

Users are more and more demanding on the evolutions, the quality and the deadlines brought to the IT projects. They also demand a high level of agility from project management teams. Responsible for the entire project cycle, the Project Management will have a direct impact on the respect of deadlines, the cost and especially the relevance of the tool that will be deployed. The challenges in this regard are numerous: 

Inflation of development costs 

• Features developed and not used  
• Documentation rarely up to date and always expensive to maintain    
• Administrative activities with little added value 

Efficiency problems of the project team 

• Poor collaboration and communication between project actors   
• Uncertain motivation and lack of involvement of the teams 

Inadequacy of the real needs of the users 

• Reduction of the functional scope during the project to meet deadlines 
• Delay in the availability of the application 
• Discrepancy between the users’ vision and the final result   

The risk of project failure 

• Initial predictive planning rarely compatible with the reality of the project  
• Instability of user needs  
• Insufficient project follow-up  
• Non-compliant software quality 

Our offer  

We support our clients in the management and implementation of projects: from the collection of user needs to the final production and change management.  

We also provide our clients with specific tools and methodologies to ensure a quality project, delivered on budget and on time: 

• Gathering of needs from users  
• Formalisation of business needs  
• Writing of specifications and detailed functional specifications
• Audit of existing systems, diagnosis and proposal of solutions   
• Project governance: implementation of work methodologies, planning, work plan, project committees, steering committees, definition and monitoring of risk indicators  
• Design and execution of test/acceptance plans  
• Validation and homologation of solutions  
• Change management support  
• Functional support to users  
• Support for the modernization of the MOA by the Scrum Master

Our offer is available on a fixed price basis and on a contract basis in order to meet your needs in the most relevant way. 

Novelis is an expert in the management of agile projects with a highly iterative approach: 

We can no longer count the good practices that come from agile approaches: the daily meeting, planning poker, test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, simple architecture, etc.

Agility, but for what results? The experience at Novelis is significant: involved users, reduced time to market and serene development teams due to the fact that success becomes the norm and not the happy exception. 

Of course, agility in itself is not an infallible guarantee of success. To run a good agile project, you have to be a good agilist. And that’s where Novelis’ experience comes in. Because there is agility in the books and agility in the field. At Novelis, agile is practical, without ever betraying its core values. Our extensive knowledge of agile and related methods (SCRUM, XP, UP, LEAN, KANBAN) allows Novelis teams to propose and adjust the most suitable method to the project environment and to the company organization.