Agile Development Squads

Deliver digital products with purpose-built, multi-disciplinary teams that are tuned to working in an agile manner

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Agile Development Squads

Design Thinking + Agile Development

When constructing agile teams, it is important to ask "Who are our users and what are we building for them?". The iterative nature of agile projects requires your team's ideation and design to follow an evolutionary approach where the outcomes for the sprints evolve based on continuous feedback. This approach allows enterprises to deliver outcomes quickly while also staying nimble and empathizing with end users, thus allowing you to create the perfect blend of value and functionality.

Agile Product Development

Purpose-Built

Onboard talented individuals that have the experience of working together and the skill sets required for digital products

Agile-Ready

Miracle's team have the experience of working in agile environments and are passionate about advocating agile principles

Singular-Focus

Miracle's multi-disciplinary teams are outcome focussed and are driven to deliver the highest quality digital products for our customers

Digital-Talent

Through our Center of Excellence ecosystem, our teams are constantly evolving and being upskilled for digital product delivery

Miracle's Agile Development Squads

Enterprises that have prioritized the delivery of digital products and services are struggling to keep apace due to numerous factors. The formation of large siloed teams due to resource specialization, the lack of technology upskilling and agile buy-in, along with high costs are pulling back enterprises that want to run. Miracle's Agile Development Squads allow you to onboard purpose-built, multi-disciplinary teams that can be "dropped into" your environment to deliver specific outcomes and solutions.

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Hybrid Delivery Model for Agile Squads

Miracle's vast ecosystem of Centers of Excellence enables us to provide our customers with customizable options to build their teams in an effective and cost efficient manner, thus enabling you to deliver digital outcomes with higher quality, faster time to market and optimized expenses.

Use Cases for Agile Squads

Miracle's Agile Development Squads are outcome-driven and agile-ready teams that can be used to enable numerous use cases for enterprises that are transforming digitally.

Application Modernization

For enterprises that are replatforming legacy applications (or) enhancing end user experiences(UX)

Cloud Native App Development

For businesses looking to build greenfield, cloud native applications and services in the cloud

Cloud Migration Factory

For organizations that are migrating their applications, data and services to the cloud

Digital Product Delivery

For teams that are focussed on delivering value-added digital products and experiences

Composition of an Agile Development Squad

Miracle's Agile Development Squads are purpose-built for our customers and are multidisciplinary in nature to provide customizable squad options that fulfill your desired outcomes. Squads are typically composed of 4 to 8 squad members with a combination of onsite, onshore, and offshore talent.

Product
Owner

Solution
Architect

Full Stack
Developer

UI/UX
Designer

DevOps
Engineer

SDET
(Testing)

Cloud
Engineers

Scrum
Master

Industry Trends for Digital Products

Technology is evolving at a rapid pace and organizations that are willing to adopt the right mix will reap the benefits of best-of-breed enterprise solutions. At Miracle, we are constantly upskilling our teams to be able to deliver solutions that are built for the future.

Microservices Architectures

Moving away from monolithic architectures to composable and modularized services creates opportunities to scale sustainably

DevOps and Automation

Customer demand and the need to deliver faster is leading organizations to harmonize their teams through the adoption of DevOps

Cloud-Native Applications

Born-in-the-Cloud solutions enable organizations to scale for the demands of a digital economy and optimize operational costs

AI/ML infused Applications

The infusion of AI-powered solutions, such as Image Recognition is enabling organizations to build innovative products

Data-Driven Experiences

Leveraging the vast influx of data that businesses acquire will allow them to create experiences that are personalized and informed

Conversational Interfaces

Conversational Chatbots and AI is allowing enterprises to deliver self-service capabilities to users via messaging channels

Powering Advanced Analytics with Snowflake for a National Retailer

Application Development
Business Challenge

Our customer is a leading retailer of various products, they needed updates on their stock, scalability, and batch performance issues. Their main challenges include, the queries took longer and impacted performance

  • Lacking
  • Addressing in real-time decision making for same-day sales promotions

Our customer was looking for any tool which can automate their business processes.

Our Solution
  • They need cloud-based analytics and reporting
  • Included Robling DaaS, a purpose-built retail data-as-a-service (DaaS) solution designed specifically to speed and simplify retailers’ journey to holistic
  • Included Enterprise Reporting and Analytics Modernization (ERAM)
  • Worked on Supporting unstructured Data Lake (unstructured data)
  • Ease-of-use and developer time - Much simpler ease of use, especially for optimized tuning, data automation, such as SQL conversion tool
Customer Benefits
  • Ability to independently scale compute and storage (business users, query users, and batch users wise) for high availability and real-time reports
  • Pay-as-you-go model
  • Migration methodology - For example, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tools work differently than ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) tools
  • Improved performance - Large queries ran 90% faster for Medium Warehouse, 96% faster for XL Warehouse
  • Better scalability - Example: Zero failures across 483 queries by 50 concurrent users on Snowflake, compared to 30 concurrent users on Teradata with several failed queries
Technology Scope
  • DaaS, ERAM, SQL, ETL tools

Field Sales Modernization through Agile Product Development for a Global Manufacturer

Application Development
Business Challenge

Our customer is one of the oldest and largest home furnishing and plumbing products manufacturers in the world. They are known for their continuous innovation in the bathroom fixtures industry.

They were looking for a high-performance digital solution on the cloud to give their global field sales teams the power to create customized product presentations by incorporating catalog information.

Our Solution

Miracle utilized an Agile Product Development methodology to,

  • Create a redefined architecture for Azure cloud implementation, allowing applications to scale more conveniently and securely
  • Created a highly secure API layer along with the option to create and share password protected PDF presentations
  • Built the application using the latest web technologies such as Angular, Bootstrap, DocumentDB, SQL Server and .NET Framework
  • Integrated the application and presentations with multiple backend Enterprise Data Sources
  • Built functionality within the application to create new presentations based on the product catalog in their ERP and enabled RBAC control for authorized access only to the audience
  • Integrated Power BI with the application logs to enable analytics that provide easy and inexpensive ways to instrument applications
  • Implemented Email notification integration using the SendGrid account through the Azure queue trigger function
Customer Benefits

Through the development of this solution the customer achieved many benefits such as,

  • Provided process security with hierarchy approval process and RBAC based authorization for the audience
  • Empowered field sales to customize, create, and share their presentations seamlessly while also allowing them to collect feedback and receive approvals
  • Improved the performance of applications by deploying in a multi-region Azure environment
  • Enabled features such as integration with product catalog for real-time data in presentations, smart search capabilities with query suggestions, and currency conversion functions for global audience needs
  • Seamless alerts and notifications without outlook dependency(enabled by SendGrid integration)
  • Customized Multilingual features with no IT involvement
Technology Scope
  • MVC, Angular, Bootstrap, Web API, Microsoft Azure Platform (PaaS), Blob storage & SQL Server, DocumentDB, Azure DevOps

Digital Transformation through Real-Time Data Integration for a Global Fast Food Restaurant Chain

EDGE Integration and API M
Business Challenge

Our customer is a renowned fast food chain with over 40,000 restaurants across the globe. They were facing challenges with a legacy data integration platform that was having several limitations including restrictions on data size, utilizing legacy data integration patterns, unable to adopt real time data streams and API integration along with other operational inefficiencies.

They were looking for a modernized solution that not only addresses their current platform issues but also allows them to realize the future needs of their restaurants.

Our Solution

Miracle's Integration Center of Excellence worked along with the customer to analyze platform gaps and architect a highly scalable and secure Data Movement as a Service platform.

  • Built a modern solution that will scale to 40,000 restaurants with about 600,000 endpoints running on a wide variety of operating systems
  • Designed a solution that integrates data from various vendors and Enterprise Applications like Salesforce, Workday, Lawson, mainframe systems, and several others
  • Delivered a multi-cloud solution on Azure and AWS to support various environments ranging from containers to stand alone Windows services running on Windows 2012 and 2016 servers
  • Built a data integration system with High Availability and Fail Over Capabilities to handle large volumes of business critical data
  • Delivered the solution as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) in a cloud native fashion to provide business agility and scalability on-demand
Customer Benefits

Through developing this solution the customer achieved the following benefits,

  • Achieved ability to scale to thousands of restaurants across the globe, helping them meet the needs of their future initiatives
  • Able to move millions of real-time messages per day across various heterogeneous endpoints
  • Seamlessly handled a large volume of mission-critical data, ranging from restaurant menu systems to pricing, Merchandising, and several others
  • Unlocked access to unlimited data along with instant, real-time integration of data streams, APIs, and more
  • Integrated data from various vendors (B2B) and Enterprise Applications including Salesforce, Lawson, Mainframe Systems, etc.
  • With Managed File Transfer capabilities, they were able to run an average of 2 million files/day between various endpoints
Technology Scope
  • AWS RDS, AWS EKS, Docker Containers, SCCM, Python, Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Oracle DB, IBM Sterling Integrator, IBM Connect: Direct, IBM Control Center and Azure Monitor