Agile Accelerator: The Agile Toolset Built By Salesforce
You are building some amazing business Solutions on the Salesforce platform and I'm sure you have quite a few challenges to solve. What if you could use the same tools that Salesforce uses? Now you can. The new updated Agile Accelerator application has been built by the team at Salesforce and is available to you today free of charge. It integrates all of your existing data into one place and allows teams to collaborate around their existing Salesforce org while they build a product, create user stories, manage work items, capture defects, assign tasks and more. Â
With Salesforce Agile Accelerator you can:
- Track Work
- Organize Your Work
- Capture Requirements
- Visualize Agile Projects
- Manage Teams and Resources
Agile is a well-known methodology that is critical to today's technology implementations
Agile is a well-known methodology that is critical to today's technology implementations. Agile software development bases its approach on the idea that it's impossible to predict every detail of what will be needed in the future and therefore it's important to allow for change.
In response to the complexity of today's software development, agile was created by engineers at a time when requirements were unclear and constantly changing. In response to the speed of today's software development, agile was created with shorter release cycles rather than long ones so that users could get new features faster without waiting years for them all at once (or never). And in response to flexibility as well as speed and complexity—and perhaps most importantly—agile gives teams immediate feedback from stakeholders so they can go back and make changes if something isn't working out as planned.
Your releases vary in size and frequency based on needs and processes
The size and frequency of releases are determined by how your business operates. Salesforce Accelerator lets you choose from a number of options for how your releases should be implemented.
For example:
- You can choose to have a large release every Monday morning, or even on a daily basis if that's what works best for you.
- If your team members work in different time zones across the globe, then it might make sense to have an agile sprint every month over multiple weeks rather than just one week.
- Your company may have multiple teams working in different locations on different projects at the same time (for example, sales teams in Australia and the UK). In this case, it would make sense for these two teams to work together on their own separate projects but with shared resources (like tooling kits) so that they're both progressing at roughly the same rate as their counterparts around the world.
Salesforce provides a powerful platform for implementing agile processes
Agile is a well-known methodology that is critical to today's technology implementations. In fact, it's even been used by the U.S. government since 2000 to streamline their services and make them more efficient.
The most popular implementation of Agile is Scrum, which requires teams working on an initiative to work in short bursts of time (called sprints), making quick progress towards achieving goals in each sprint. The Salesforce platform introduces complexity not seen in other implementations as it requires integration with other applications like ERPs and CRMs, as well as ensuring that data can be accessed easily across multiple systems—a challenge for many organizations because they use multiple solutions from different vendors without enterprise agreements or contracts between them.
Conclusion
Salesforce is a powerful tool that can help you implement your Agile process. However, it may not be the right fit for every organization. The Salesforce Accelerator provides a guide to help organizations evaluate if they are ready to implement or upgrade their Salesforce platform.
Download Salesforce Agile Accelerator from the App Exchange today.
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