Agile Transformation

Transforming your business and IT organization

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.” Alfred North Whithead. If you are a company that realizes you need to improve your speed to market, solve process problems faster or have realized that your approach to solution development needs help, you may want to consider an Agile Transformation. Transforming your business and IT organization to be more agile requires the following to take place:

1. The business and IT must work together to break value down into smaller units of work.
2. IT must develop solutions that can change more rapidly to respond faster to business need
3. Projects must have greater visibility and metrics so true performance can be measured.
4. IT and business solutions must be built with a high degree of quality therefore minimizing total cost of ownership and freeing up resources to continue the business IT progression

In an Agile Transformation we work with you to assess, train and optimize your people, process, technology, culture and structure from end to end. We look for ways to optimize throughput and quality throughout the lifecycle of solutions development.

We start with value. We do rapid business value analysis through a series of tools we call Enterprise Value Models and Current Reality Diagrams. These visual tools help the business and IT understand the make up and structure of the business problem being solved, We then work with your requirements and design teams break this model down into smaller more consumable units of work (stories) as we begin to teach and train your developers the basic tenants of Agile development. In stead of talking your way into a new way of thinking we believe real change comes through behavior.

We then work with your Project Managers and Business Sponsors to develop an Agile (Speed to Value) cadence and establish the proper tools and processes to track project velocity and quality. You then begin to see the transformation occur; your staff begins to talk about velocity and throughput, about value and business delivery. They realize that Agility cannot be achieved unless truth is managed through a series of tests and that quality is as important as on time delivery. We consider the transformation complete when they begin to run the project and carry on this message to the organization and their peers.

So what is the business benefit? -- Thirty percent more throughput at Six Sigma level quality. We call this better. faster. cheaper.