Software Localization 
 Localizing in an "Agile" World 

• Need to achieve sim-ship of software in multiple languages? 
• Facing new challenges integrating Agile development and localization? 
• Losing ground to competitors because global time to market is too slow?

A successful global product launch requires early planning for software internationalization and localization. By considering other languages from the start, software can be built to make localization easy. Additionally, with the right technology and processes, software localization can be integrated into an Agile development methodology. 

With software localization technology, organizations can enhance the speed and efficiency of the software engineering process and ensure the finished product will be easy to translate into new languages. Within an Agile development methodology, translation drops can be accepted more frequently, which has many benefits for global product launches.

• Shorter lead times: Localization of software and the translation of documentation at the end of each sprint rather than at the end of the whole project.
• Superior end product quality: A localized software product that fits with the linguistic, cultural, branding and technical requirements of the target market.
• Improved localization efficiency: When used with translation, brand and process automation solutions from SDL, reuse of previously translated content can be maximized throughout the release.

SDL's Software Localization and Internationalization technology greatly speeds up the translation of user interfaces for many different types of software, including embedded and packaged software, web and PC software, mobile and enterprise software. It helps engineers check translated interfaces regularly throughout the agile development process, and assists translators, who do not have programming experience, with visual, in-context translation of resource files.

Throughout the release process, QA teams benefit from seeing incremental developments in their native language, improving consistency and reducing errors in each testing phase. With these solutions, software engineering and localization teams can take the essential step towards global engineering excellence by enabling visual, in-context and continuous localization to be integrated with today's agile development processes.