When it comes to releasing software, speed matters. By adopting an Agile and DevOps approach you can speed up deployment times while ensuring your end users get the quality they deserve. In this article, we’ll take a look at .NET and how it facilitates Agile Delivery. Let’s get started.
The Problem
Developers are constantly being asked to deliver software faster, but the old way of waterfall development is slowing them down. Agile delivery with .NET allows the software to be developed, deployed, and updated promptly without sacrificing quality.
The Goal
.NET provides a rich set of tools and frameworks that can be used to create applications that are secure, reliable, and efficient. When it comes time to deploy these applications, the goal is not to take weeks or months to do it. Instead, the goal should be to get them out into the hands of users as quickly as possible so they can provide feedback and create new ideas in response.
Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
MVP is a product with the core features needed to satisfy initial customers and provide feedback for upcoming development. An MVP helps reduce risk because you can test your assumptions without making large investments.
Iteration
An iteration is a finite period in which work is completed. Think of it as a sprint. A team meets every day and agrees on what they will work on that day, whether it’s a new feature or fixing bugs. The team completes the agreed-upon tasks, demos their progress to stakeholders, and then discusses what needs to be done next. This cycle repeats until the team reaches the project’s end date or decides to stop because they feel confident enough in their progress.
How to Plan an Iteration?
Planning an iteration is one of the most important aspects of agile delivery. Once you’ve planned your iteration, you can then break it into tasks, assign those tasks to team members, and then prioritize those tasks so that everyone knows what they should be working on each day.
Next, determine how much time should be allocated to each task and divide the total amount of time by the number of iterations to figure out how long it will take to complete each task.
Benefits Of Having a Release Plan
To deploy your software faster, you need to have a release plan. There are many benefits of having a release plan, including making sure that the software is ready for deployment, keeping the deployment on time and budget, as well as being able to iterate quickly on the software after it has been deployed.
Need of Iteration Planning Meeting
The first step in the iteration planning meeting is to identify the work that needs to be completed. The team should be clear on the goals of the iteration and what it will take to achieve those goals.
Next, they should identify all of the work that is necessary to complete those goals. This list can include anything from coding, testing, requirements gathering, documentation, or any other tasks needed.
Part 1 – Evaluation Criteria for Story Acceptance
The evaluation criteria for story acceptance are a critical first step to making sure that the team is investing their time into the right stories. If a story does not meet the criteria, it will not be accepted by the team, regardless of how important it might seem to be.
Part 2 – Start Date and Budget Analysis for Accepted Stories
The team needs to now finalize the Start Date and Budget Analysis for the accepted stories, including the following:
- Determine how many sprints it will take to complete each story.
- Decide on a start date for the first sprint.
- List any tasks that should be completed before starting work on a story.
How Do We Get Our First Increment Done?
Step 1 – Establish Baseline Estimates.
Step 2 – Put an Implementation Schedule Together.
Step 3 – Identify All Dependencies and Assign Owners.
Step 4 – Proceed.
How Can You Best Assess Your Progress Against a Release Schedule?
When you’re in the middle of delivering a project, it can be hard to know whether or not you’re going to finish on time. The key is to establish baseline estimates of how long tasks will take and how much they should cost. Then put an implementation schedule together and identify all the dependencies. If you have several .Net development tasks that are dependent on each other, you might want to stagger their start times so they don’t all require completion at the same time.
This is how software is developed and deployed to its respective users. Collectively, agile, ASP.Net, and DevOps helps to deliver product faster.
DevOps and the agile approach can help you bridge the gap between product development and deployment. At Technogiq IT Solutions, we can help you sort out your issues and get started today.