Black Pepper is a leading Agile IT Consultancy with a proven track record of delivering business value to high profile clients. We value the agile methods:
* Focus on working software: provides immediate feedback and greater control of projects
* Working with our customers: delivering visible business value alongside you and your teams
* Test Driven Development: giving valuable real time metrics on velocity, burn down and productivity
* Delivering experience and expertise: through pair programming, refactoring, and shared code ownership
Steve Lawrence, Head of Corporate Foreign Exchange at Thomas Cook, has this to say about us:
“Black Pepper are the first software developers I have found who are able
to understand the needs of the business and customers, not just the
technical requirements. All through the development of our system I have
found them extremely professional and their knowledge and enthusiasm
towards Thomas Cook’s end goal has been second to none.”
How we can help
Agile methods can help you gain better control of your software development projects, delivering more value faster and with a higher degree of quality than traditional waterfall approaches. Black Pepper can help if any of the following statements are familiar:
1. I have too many requirements and not enough resources to deliver
2. The business keeps changing priorities and we constantly need to change focus
3. All my requirements take more than three weeks to develop
4. We usually miss deployment deadlines to make sure all features are present
5. We plan up front and hold lessons learned at the end of each project
6. QA is separate from our project teams
7. We have less than 25% of automated test coverage on our code base
We use best of breed technologies, such as Java / J2EE / Javascript, GWT, Eclipse, Selenium, Adobe Flex, Ruby, Jira, Hudson and a suite of open source development tools to minimise upfront costs. You’ll learn most about us from our blogs, or just contact us to discuss our methods and delivery options in more detail.
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