Frontline PCB Solutions has completed the initial implementation of the Scrum framework, in order to increase its productivity, quality and response to market needs. The implementation was facilitated by AgileSparks, specializing in Agile and Scrum.
Scrum is an agile, lightweight process that can be used to manage and control software and product development using iterative, incremental practices. Scrum is a set of interrelated simple practices and rules that optimize the development environment, reduce organizational overhead, and closely synchronize market requirements with iterative prototypes.
Scrum was implemented by leading organizations worldwide, such as: Google, Siemens, Yahoo, Phillips, SalesForce, British Telecom, BMC, SUN, SAP, Novell, Motorola, IBM, HP, Adobe and more. The system significantly increases productivity, development quality, and reduces time to benefits while facilitating adaptive, empirical systems development.
Based on modern process control theory, Scrum causes the best possible software to be constructed given the available resources, acceptable quality, and required release dates. Useful product functionality is delivered at every iteration as requirements, architecture, and design emerge, even when using unstable technologies.
Mr. Avi Glasberg, President of Frontline PCB Solutions, said: “Frontline has decided to adopt Scrum as part of its commitment to delivering the world’s leading PCB software solutions. The current economic worldwide arena makes Scrum even more relevant for us, as we are striving to be precise and focused on enhanced data integrity and production error reduction.”
Mr. Danny (Danko) Kovatch, a Certified Scrum Trainer and Co-founder of AgileSparks, approved by the International Scrum Alliance to certify Scrum Masters throughout the world, commented: “We believe in a result-oriented approach and have proven experience in breaking the "glass ceiling" of organizational improvement. Frontline’s managements’ commitment led to a devoted implementation process of the Scrum framework that gradually but surely makes impact on its development atmosphere and productivity”.
The Scrum framework was created by Jeff Sutherland in 1993, who borrowed the term "scrum" from an analogy put forth in a 1986 study by Takeuchi and Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review. In that study, Takeuchi and Nonaka compare high-performing, cross-functional teams to the scrum formation used by rugby teams. Ken Schwaber formalized the process for the worldwide software industry in the 1995. Since then, Scrum has become one of the leading agile development methodologies, used by hundreds of companies around the world.
