Feeling Agile

If you've ever studied computing at university you'll have come across some tedious methodologies like the 'Waterfall Model' or the PRINCE2 project management standard. One of the more recent entrants into the field is 'AGILE' development, and as the name suggests, it is all about getting results quickly, keeping the customer in the loop, and providing a working system as early in the development process as possible.

AGILE development is a team-oriented approach, with several developers working on a site at the same time, watching what each other is doing, and fixing issues as they arise. neatComponents provides an ideal platform for this type of working, as it is inherently multi-user for the site designers, with full page and record-locking, and it is quite happy for those developers to be geographically dispersed. The rich permissions system allows the client to be shown parts of the solution as it is created, without the outside world seeing it too.