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For the first time Belarusian IT Awards ceremony took place in Minsk on the 28th of March 2014. This is an independent and open recognition project initiated by the leading Belarusian IT-professionals’ portal dev.by. The IT Awards are aimed to recognize and celebrate the most remarkable achievements of IT-professionals, IT-communities and IT-companies in 2013 in terms of their contribution to Belarusian IT-industry development.

According to Artem Kontsevoi (dev.by managing director) one of the most important aims of this initiative is to name and recognize the people standing behind the successful products and projects realized by Belarusian IT-companies in 2013; and also to recognize the professionals who have introduced innovative development practices and thus have moved Belarusian IT-industry forward.

22 nominations of IT Awards were announced in early February 2014 just before the open on-line promotion of nominees. There were 5 nominations for IT-companies: Grand Award for IT-industry development; Award for the local professional IT-communities development and support; Social Responsibility Award; Best IT-project for the Belarusian Market; IT HR-Brand 2013. And 18 nominations for IT-professionals: Ambassador of Quality Assurance, Ambassador of GUI, Ambassador of GameDev and etc. After a month of open online nominees promotion, independent IT-industry experts shortlisted the nominees in all categories and identified the list of finalists in each nomination. After that an online voting procedure was launched for almost a month. All votes were gathered via anonymous SMS voting and industry experts rating. Finally the winners were announced in every nomination on the 28th of March 2014. 

Ciklum Minsk has got the 2013 year IT-Award in the nomination “For the contribution to the local professional IT-communities development”. Our competitors in the nomination were such companies as Altoros, Sam Solutions and IT Staff.

Современная организация постоянно разрабатывает два-три, а то и добрый десяток различных проектов. Построить гибридное облако, запустить очередной набор корпоративных приложений или внедрить систему отчетности  - и это далеко не полный список текущих задач, и кроме  того, новые проекты уже на горизонте.

Вопрос о том, как именно управлять новыми и текущими проектами становится все более актуальным. Последнее время широкую популярность обрели гибкие методологии разработки программного обеспечения – Аgile. Суть их в  использовании итеративно-инкрементальной разработки  и  получении оперативной обратной связи, и как следствие — безболезненной реакции на изменения в проекте (приоритетах, списке работ, в новых идеях заказчика).

Agile не заключен в рамки методологии программирования, это гораздо более широкое понятие, в которое можно смело включать управление предприятием и даже жизненные принципы. Один из гуру Agile Ахмед Ситки неустанно повторяет на своих тренингах, что цель обучения  состоит  в том, чтобы действительно стать Agile, а не просто делать Agile: «To Be Agile not just Do Agile!”.

Возникает вопрос, существует ли отличие ценностей Agile от традиционных ценностей управления проектами?

Agile development has been undergoing some major changes these past years. Concept of value teams and application of Agile methods for the large organizations threaten to change the landscape as the next big thing in Agile development.

With the growth in various technologies and solutions, it’s imperative to stay ahead of the curve and identify future trends in this space. We asked Ciklum Consulting experts to share their predictions on the future of Agile development and the ways in which it will impact software development processes and practices in 2014. 

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