Nirav Assar

Member for

13 years 1 month

I am a software consultant in the DFW area. I specialize in web application development for enterprises, along with agile consulting practices. Grails, Groovy, Java, Spring and Hibernate are my specialty areas in technology. In the Agile spectrum I have run teams with XP, Scrum, and UP methodologies. I am interested in providing high value to business groups, with the most effective and latest technologies available.

Company

solutionsfit

Job Function

Consulting

Job Title

Principal Software Consultant/Owner

Industry

Business Services - Consulting - Non-profit

Interests

Agile Development

Design and Architecture

Development

Leadership

Requirements

Test Automation

Software Testing

Country

United States

Nirav Assar

An independent consultant and co-owner of solutionsfit, a Dallas/Fort Worth-based consulting firm, Nirav Assar has provided enterprise solutions on projects in the financial, real estate, government, and retail sectors. With expertise in the Java technologies of Grails, Groovy, Spring, and Seam, Nirav says that agile philosophy and test-driven development are at the heart of his profession. He enjoys sharing techniques and tools that help software people excel at their jobs. Contact Nirav at [email protected] and view his blog at assarconsulting.blogspot.com.

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	Tips for a Productive Workday Some days you leave work feeling as if the day went by without an inkling of progress or productivity. Other days, you leave feeling as if you conquered the world, with an internal spark of satisfaction and anticipating resuming progress the next day. So, what is it that makes the difference?
	Four Techniques to Wrap Your Head Around Complicated Code Software people love challenges and want to exercise their brains by tackling difficult problems. Our nature is to understand complicated problems, become familiar with various business domains, and generate a solution that helps the world become a better place. Nirav Assar explains four techniques to wrap your head around complicated code.
	The Agile Tipping PointNirav P Assar uses Malcom Gladwell's best selling book , The Tipping Point to discuss what's necessary to fully, and successfully implement agile, in order to take advantage of all that it can bring to a software development team.
	Exploring the Subtle Differences Between Agile Paradigms In recent years within the object oriented and agile community, several approaches to software design and development have materialized and are in use by professional software developers. Test-Driven Development (TDD), Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Behavior-Driven Design (BDD) and Feature-Driven Design (FDD) are some of the more well known approaches. While these philosophies all imbibe the classic agile principles of an incremental and iterative mindset to software development, they subtly differ from each other.