Distributed Agile

ThoughtWorks dramatically improves our clients' competitive advantage by delivering business critical, complex and innovative IT solutions through a unique global delivery model. We constantly focus on delivering business value, maximising economic benefits and minimising risk.

Optimum Offshore

ThoughtWorks' delivery capability takes offshore development to the next level of sophistication and quality. Our Optimum Offshore methodology applies the success of ThoughtWorks' Agile best practices to mission critical and complex business solutions using offshore and globally distributed teams.

Reduced risk of offshoring -- ThoughtWorks provides unprecedented visibility into development. We deliver production-ready software every two-to-four weeks with rigorous focus on quality assurance, adaptive and priority-driven planning.

Reduced time to market -- ThoughtWorks provides its customers with the ability to prioritise critical functions first, delivering tested code for these functions iteratively. This approach enables the fastest possible route to return on investment.

Reduced total project cost -- We apply Lean manufacturing principles; reducing waste and significantly improving the productivity of the delivery team by preventing the leakage that occurs in heavy up-front design and post- development rework.

We achieve all the above by implementing both development and process best practices such as automated testing, continuous integration, application of patterns, iterative development and periodic retrospectives to deliver working software in two-to-four week iterations. Use of intelligent, cost-effective tools such as web cameras, chat and a cubicle-free working environment further enhances communication and visibility which augments the results achieved on our projects.

What we do

Typically we help clients in a combination of these five ways:

• Reduce risk by providing executive-level, independent strategic advice on technology offshoring decisions
• Reduce cost by setting up captive offshore Agile development centres in a collaborative build, operate and transfer model
• Increase visibility with end-to-end management, delivery and maintenance of bespoke solutions in an iterative, two-to-four week delivery cycle
• Increase efficiency by driving Agility in our clients' IT teams and IT partners
• Improve quality by providing advisory and Agile development and testing services.

In addition to an established delivery track-record in Java and .NET platforms, ThoughtWorks is an early adopter and contributor to emerging technologies such as Ruby/Ruby-On-Rails. ThoughtWorks is a hothouse of innovation and contributes heavily to the Open Source community, where we originated many Open Source tools, including CruiseControl and Sahi.

We take an innovative approach to engaging and servicing our customers, putting together custom solutions to match their unique needs -- from there arriving at the Optimum Offshore solution. ThoughtWorks has an established track record delivering efficiently in onshore, distributed, offshore and multi-vendor models.

Read Forrester Research's Total Economic Impact (TEI) Report on ThoughtWorks' Distributed Agile or our Distributed Agile FAQs.

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