Frequently Asked Questions

The metaverse is the evolving 3D universe that combines multiple virtual spaces in the digital world.The metaverse is a seamless convergence of our physical and digital lives, creating a unified, virtual community where we can work, play, relax, transact and socialize.  It’s the future iteration of the internet. The concept was developed in the science-fiction novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. However, while the idea of a metaverse was once fiction, it now looks like it could be a reality in the future. The technologies that make up the metaverse can include virtual reality—characterized by persistent virtual worlds that continue to exist even when you're not playing—as well as augmented reality that combines aspects of the digital and physical worlds.  The metaverse isn’t fully in existence, but some platforms contain metaverse like elements. While many people already work at home, in the metaverse, you will be able to enter a 3D office and interact with your colleagues’ avatars. Your job may also be metaverse related and provide you with income directly usable in the metaverse.  3D spaces in the metaverse will let you socialize, learn, collaborate, play and work in ways that go beyond what we can imagine.  

Mixed reality is a significant advancement of augmented reality (AR) – the technology behind 2016’s Pokémon GO phenomenon. In a “hybrid” environment, interactive virtual objects can be mapped to the physical environment, blending the real and the virtual. 

 Whilst the core premise of both AR and MR is similar, the crucial difference is the underlying technology. Mixed Reality is (for the moment, at least) headset-based, whereas AR is viewed through a flat-screen such as a smartphone or tablet. MR is also aware of the geometry of the environment around you – using it as the canvas for you to create immersive content that is defined by the space you are in. 

 MR brings together real world and digital elements. In mixed reality, you interact with and manipulate both physical and virtual items and environments, using next-generation sensing and imaging technologies. Mixed Reality allows you to see and immerse yourself in the world around you even as you interact with a virtual environment using your own hands—all without ever removing your headset. It provides the ability to have one foot (or hand) in the real world, and the other in an imaginary place, breaking down basic concepts between real and imaginary, offering an experience that can change the way you game and work today. 

 Virtual Reality (VR) has been the “next big thing” for several years, but its time has finally come as a way to generate realistic images, sounds, and other sensations that put you smack in the middle of a spectacular imaginary world. Augmented Reality (AR), which adds virtual stuff to your real world environment, is contributing to the buzz, and both technologies should become a big part of our future. 

With Mixed Reality (MR), you can play a virtual video game, grab your real world water bottle, use your enterprise apps, collaborate with colleagues , smack an imaginary character from the game with the bottle, and train on the job with ease. Imagination and reality have never been so intermingled.

 Virtual Reality (VR) has been the “next big thing” for several years, but its time has finally come as a way to generate realistic images, sounds, and other sensations that put you smack in the middle of a spectacular imaginary world. Augmented Reality (AR), which adds virtual stuff to your real world environment, is contributing to the buzz, and both technologies should become a big part of our future. 

With Mixed Reality (MR), you can play a virtual video game, grab your real world water bottle, use your enterprise apps, collaborate with colleagues , smack an imaginary character from the game with the bottle, and train on the job with ease. Imagination and reality have never been so intermingled.

 Virtual Reality (VR) has been the “next big thing” for several years, but its time has finally come as a way to generate realistic images, sounds, and other sensations that put you smack in the middle of a spectacular imaginary world. Augmented Reality (AR), which adds virtual stuff to your real world environment, is contributing to the buzz, and both technologies should become a big part of our future. 

With Mixed Reality (MR), you can play a virtual video game, grab your real world water bottle, use your enterprise apps, collaborate with colleagues , smack an imaginary character from the game with the bottle, and train on the job with ease. Imagination and reality have never been so intermingled.

NFT stands for non-fungible token. It’s generally built using the same kind of programming as cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin or Ethereum, but that’s where the similarity ends. 

 Physical money and cryptocurrencies are “fungible,” meaning they can be traded or exchanged for one another. They’re also equal in value—one dollar is always worth another dollar; one Bitcoin is always equal to another Bitcoin. Crypto’s fungibility makes it a trusted means of conducting transactions on the blockchain. 

NFTs are different. Each has a digital signature that makes it impossible for NFTs to be exchanged for or equal to one another (hence, non-fungible). 

Context is primary to the answer. What commercial needs challenge your business? What size is your organization? How is your company organized? Are your core product teams dispersed in many geographical locations? Therefore the actual commercial problems your business faces and the way you respond to your customers are contextual to the answer.

Scaling agile is one of the most challenging issues to solve because there are so many variants of how organizations are structured and their commercial needs are diverse. This awareness brings into focus the notion of context.

Because of that diverse variance, there have emerged many scaling frameworks, and the notion of, “one-size fits all” is a false premise. Scrum is the dominant team framework; therefore, most scaling frameworks have Scrum at their core. Using Scrum as the basis to solve scaling problems is sound because most of them add to extend as a technique. 

Any transformation or framework for a change as dramatic as altering the way a company operates requires leading the staff through the journey as opposed to dragging them. Some critical areas for success are to recognize that change is difficult, and an acknowledgment that this endeavour is a human effort.

Embracing the Scrum values of commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respects. And expressing them in ways that the company entirely embraces them, so they become organizationally shared values will promote success.

As time progresses the change begins to have visible outcomes; happier staff, innovation grows more pronounced, and value delivery becomes accelerated. Suddenly there becomes momentum as staff, teams, departments, and business units become pulled toward the new operating model of agile.

The issue of scaling agile is monolithic therefore starting at the team, or a few teams at the beginning of the journey is required.

Today a number of enterprises and software teams have adopted Agile methods for software development to improve the quality of software and rapidly changing customer requirements. Lean and Agile management methods such as Scrum, XP – and more recently, Kanban and Scrumban – combined with technical engineering practices such as TDD, test automation and automated build and deployment have had a dramatic impact on the quality, time to market and the frequency of deployment of applications and software.

A significant number of organizations, especially those operating in regulated environments such as government, defense or financial markets, companies dealing with complex business issues, including security, have continued to work with traditional methods.

These also include IT Services and Consulting companies who have either chosen to or have been forced to operate in the traditional environment, due to Fixed Price project pressures from customers and the nature of work they perform.

These organizations place a strong emphasis on sophisticated Program and Project Management, a well-defined Scope and/ or State of Work (SoW) and User Acceptance Testing practices. Yet, they are looking to adopt Agile execution principles and methods as well as technical practices that are possible in their technology/ investment environment in order to better deliver quality products and services that meet the customer’s needs, engage in a more collaborative and trusting relationships with their customers and have a more happy and satisfied workforce that is engaged in delivering real value to their customers!

Our approach provides a combination of functionality and configurability that provides a fantastic combination of the traditional Project/ Program planning/ management, combined with all of the Agile execution capabilities a team might want.

Some of the key features of our Hybrid Agile solution:

A flexible and sophisticated Process Template module that lets you define all components of the project lifecycle as well as various workflows, metrics and artifacts you would use in a Hybrid Agile project.

A power program and project setup capability, combined with resource planning/ management, 2-way synchronization with MS Project time reporting if needed and other modules such as Issues, Risk and Document management.

If you need it, a full-function Requirements Management module to capture business and functional requirements and get customer signoff, before breaking down the Requirements to Epics/ User Stories.

Contextual Collaboration is a key feature. Conduct daily stand-ups meeting with  manager, assign tasks and action items, record discussions against the associated artifacts, review work by your team and route via workflow or a visual board as you need.

Visualize all your work on a work board (or Kanban/ Scrumban board) and manage work visually. Provide all the visual cues to your team and to all stakeholders on the status of each sprint/ release, each blocked user story and each work item flagged for review.

Start with defining your Backlog – either from scratch or from the Requirements captured in the system. Break up the backlog into a Theme – Epics – User Stories hierarchy – or build your own custom hierarchy based on your existing Agile development processes. Define a full Release and Sprint plan and link them to the high-level project plan. Add user stories to releases and sprints – and start executing them. Track Release/ Sprint progress using Burn-down/ Burn-up and Velocity/ Throughput charts.

Integrate your various Dev and Test tools – IDEs, Configuration Management, Build and Deployment  and get all the visibility you need. See reports and get automated email alerts of build failures so your team is ready for action the next morning!

Today a number of enterprises and software teams have adopted Agile methods for software development to improve the quality of software and rapidly changing customer requirements. Lean and Agile management methods such as Scrum, XP – and more recently, Kanban and Scrumban – combined with technical engineering practices such as TDD, test automation and automated build and deployment have had a dramatic impact on the quality, time to market and the frequency of deployment of applications and software.

A significant number of organizations, especially those operating in regulated environments such as government, defense or financial markets, companies dealing with complex business issues, including security, have continued to work with traditional methods.

These also include IT Services and Consulting companies who have either chosen to or have been forced to operate in the traditional environment, due to Fixed Price project pressures from customers and the nature of work they perform.

These organizations place a strong emphasis on sophisticated Program and Project Management, a well-defined Scope and/ or State of Work (SoW) and User Acceptance Testing practices. Yet, they are looking to adopt Agile execution principles and methods as well as technical practices that are possible in their technology/ investment environment in order to better deliver quality products and services that meet the customer’s needs, engage in a more collaborative and trusting relationships with their customers and have a more happy and satisfied workforce that is engaged in delivering real value to their customers!

Our approach provides a combination of functionality and configurability that provides a fantastic combination of the traditional Project/ Program planning/ management, combined with all of the Agile execution capabilities a team might want.

Some of the key features of our Hybrid Agile solution:

A flexible and sophisticated Process Template module that lets you define all components of the project lifecycle as well as various workflows, metrics and artifacts you would use in a Hybrid Agile project.

A power program and project setup capability, combined with resource planning/ management, 2-way synchronization with MS Project time reporting if needed and other modules such as Issues, Risk and Document management.

If you need it, a full-function Requirements Management module to capture business and functional requirements and get customer signoff, before breaking down the Requirements to Epics/ User Stories.

Contextual Collaboration is a key feature. Conduct daily stand-ups meeting with  manager, assign tasks and action items, record discussions against the associated artifacts, review work by your team and route via workflow or a visual board as you need.

Visualize all your work on a work board (or Kanban/ Scrumban board) and manage work visually. Provide all the visual cues to your team and to all stakeholders on the status of each sprint/ release, each blocked user story and each work item flagged for review.

Start with defining your Backlog – either from scratch or from the Requirements captured in the system. Break up the backlog into a Theme – Epics – User Stories hierarchy – or build your own custom hierarchy based on your existing Agile development processes. Define a full Release and Sprint plan and link them to the high-level project plan. Add user stories to releases and sprints – and start executing them. Track Release/ Sprint progress using Burn-down/ Burn-up and Velocity/ Throughput charts.

Integrate your various Dev and Test tools – IDEs, Configuration Management, Build and Deployment  and get all the visibility you need. See reports and get automated email alerts of build failures so your team is ready for action the next morning!

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