Avantica Nearly Doubles Certified Scrum Masters Supporting Agile
May 31, 2012 Leave a comment
Avantica Technologies continues to expand its multi-year committment to Agile development by nearly doubling the number of software engineers receiving Scrum Master certification. The nearly 20-year-old company, with facilities in Silicon Valley and New York, and software engineering centers in Costa Rica and Peru, co-develops and tests software products, large-scale Web and mobile apps for its global customers.
The company has earned a reputation for its knowledge and use of Agile developemnt. Its engineers are highly skilled in distributed Agile: co-developing and testing with customers in an Agile engineering environment distributed over different geographies. Avantica utilizes its strength of being in the same time-zone as its North America customers to support effective customer collaboration.
Avantica’s Scrum Master, working closely with the customer’s internal engineering team, is accountable for removing impediments in the way of delivering on the goal: iterative and incremental development based on intense collaboration resulting in quality software. The company’s Agile capabilities, led by its certified Scrum Masters, are defined by:
1. Deep experience with tools such as JIRA GreenHopper, Crucible, Rally and Pivotal supporting backlog management, sprint planning and team tracking
2. Access to state-of-the-art communications, computing and security infrastructure at Avantica’s software engineering centers in Latin America
3. Western oriented, non-hierarchical and self-organizing software engineering culture
4. Flexibility to rapidly adapt to changing customer requirements while maintaining software quality.
Avantica’s software engineers easily integrate into customers’ internal engineering teams, and existing Agile model, or, if asked, bring proven Agile processes to the customer partnership. Whether collaborating with customers on innovative Enterprise, Cloud, Social Networking, Consumer Web, Financial or Mobile apps, Avantica’s engineers are committed to leveraging Agile to deliver quality software development and testing.
