Today, on my way back from Sweden, I stopped in the Netherlands to visit Tricode, our strategic partner. On the way from the airport we’ve chatted as always, and I realized that they started to implement scrum as well in their projects. This is not the first (not the second and even not the 10th) GigaSpaces’ partner who’s adopting scrum, directly influenced by GigaSapces. As our product development is being done with Scrum.
I wonder why is that, what makes them adopt scrum?
Well, it is optional that it has nothing to do with GigaSpaces. Scrum is a popular agile methodology and coincidently we use scrum as other organizations. This may very well be the case, but I doubt that.
When asking some deeper questions, it appears that the level of service GigaSpaces’ partners and customers are getting because we are able to respond quickly to on-going requirements and the fact that our early access program allows our partners to influence a product release while it’s in the making is perceived as a great advantage. This opens a whole new game of collaboration between the software vendor (GigaSpaces in this case) and our partners and customers. They are now part of the team. I believe this is the level of cooperation and participation any product team would like to be able to provide to its end users, and so do they. I think (humbly) that this is the main reason for the aforementioned question.
Furthermore, it opens a whole new discussion channel between us. We not only speak about the functionality provided by our product, we also share experiences and advices on scrum implementation. This is the great part of being a development team which creates a product that other development teams use.
It is truly a great feeling. We’re adding value not just by delivering our product per se. We also create a lot of value by incorporating our customers and partners into our development process, and by sharing experiences and helping each other out.
I may very well be wrong with my conclusion, but it does feel good!
Wow it is very useful for me