Develop a case report for the British Telecom case Evans, I. (2006). Agile Deliv
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Develop a case report for the British Telecom case
Evans, I. (2006). Agile Delivery at British Telecom. Methods and Tools, 14(2), 20-27. Retrieved May 10, 2016, from http://www.methodsandtools.com/PDF/mt200602.pdf Hoffman, T. (2008, March 11).
BT: A case study in agile programming. Retrieved May 10, 2016, from http://www.infoworld.com/article/2650760/application-development/bt--a-case-study-in-agile-programming.html
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How does BT Agile development contribute to competitive advantage?
Which force/forces does it impact and why?
Which primary or support activities in Porter’s “Value Chain” (Chapter 7, Bourgeois, 2014) are impacted by BT’s implementation of an agile development process and what benefit (if any) does Agile bring to these activities?
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Solution:
What is agile?
Agile project management is an approach that is being used by the IT organizations in order to mange software development project and even given emphasis on continuous releases and incorporating the feedback from the customer with every release goes to the production environment.
Agile methodology follows scrum framework which follows fixed time of every iteration and these iterations are called sprints. So, every day scrum meeting is organized where team members discuss their update regarding the release and all. A scrum master will organize and lead the meeting.
Advantages of agile methodology
Which force/forces does it impact and why?
Primary activities on Porter’s value chain
Direct Activities: - the value is actually created by themselves.
Indirect activities: - the main functioning of this activities allows to run the direct activities smoothly.
Support activities for Porter’s chain
Support activities is generally used to determine the sub-activities and even it helps in creating new value with each primary activity. Then, the various value creation activities of your company needed to be identified. These are nothing but helps in cross functioning of the primary activity and even validate those primary activities.
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