Agile Designer™ reduces the requirement ambiguities that cause so many software projects to fail
Oxford – 27 th February 2014, Grid-Tools, the leading provider of software and services focused on improving testing practices throughout the software development lifecycle, is pleased to announce the launch of Agile Designer™, a logic design tool that speeds the delivery of high quality software applications. Agile Designer is specifically designed for testing and project teams to storyboard a requirements process flow chart, and helps individuals to manage their logical thinking, whilst removing the ambiguities that arise from written specification documents. All IT project teams – both internal and outsourced – can quickly understand specifications from the outset, reducing critical delays in testing cycles often caused by miscommunication and ambiguous requirements.
Huw Price, Managing Director, Grid-Tools says: “So much time is lost, and unnecessary effort expended, in the software development lifecycle due to poorly written specifications. In fact, over half of all software defects (56%) can be traced back to the requirements being ambiguous or poorly defined. Agile Designer™ prevents scope creep by reducing the number of software defects created and ultimately making testing much more quantifiable. With Agile Designer™ we are helping our customers to radically speed up the delivery of high quality software.”
Agile Designer
is able to reduce the creation of defects by as much as 95%, shortening the length of test cycles and minimising rework. By more accurately estimating the cost of new software development and changes to existing systems, organisations will have a systematic way of enforcing
SLAs with their outsourcers. Agile Designer also helps customers to introduce agile processes into their software development lifecycle.
Early beta customer Minne Prins, Programme Manager at SDMC, comments: “Agile Designer drives
‘right first time’ by giving a visual picture of the requirement enabling both programmer and tester to build and test in one go. The tool, which is incredibly easy-to-use, has enabled mind-shifting agility in our system development and it is becoming one of the most important tools to make requirement development more tangible and understandable in our business.”

Agile Designer is part of the Grid-Tools suite of Test Data Management solutions.
Organisations interested in a 15-day free trial of the product should visit www.agile-designer.com
, email Grid-Tools at agile-sales@agile-designer.com
or call on 01865 884600.
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About Grid-Tools
Grid-Tools is the leading provider of software products and services focusing on improving development and testing practices throughout the Software development Lifecycle (SDLC). With offices in Oxford and New York – and also a global network of sales and delivery partners – Grid-
Tools helps its customers develop valuable software products of the highest quality, on time and under budget. With over 30 years of experience delivering innovative and market-leading solutions for testing and QA in software development projects, Grid-Tools truly understand the science of testing.
About Agile Designer
Developed by Grid-Tools, Agile Designer™ lets organisations design clear, unambiguous logic, user stories and test cases all in one go. Having designed the perfect set of test cases, organisations can find and make the ‘right data’ and link it directly to their requirements. Agile Designer™ - it’s the science of software testing.
For more information please contact:
Georgina Tilby
01865 884622 georgina.tilby@grid-tools.com
or
Paula Elliott / Sonia Navarrete
01189 00 1132/1134 paula@c8consulting.co.uk
/ sonia@c8consulting.co.uk