Our expertise
Teaming our highly-experienced associates with your workforce
Engineering-centric Transformation
"Now every company is a software company" - Forbes
Software is eating the world, or so they say, but not every company is ready for this titanic shift. Organisations need to align behind their engineering functions in order to truly unleash the power of this ultimate competitive advantage.
IT Strategy
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" - Mike Tyson
Building a feedback-based IT strategy is part-art, part-experience with a heavy dose of metrics. Experience, open-mindedness and humility count.
Building DevOps Cultures
"You build it, you run it" - Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO
It sounds straightforward, easy even, but instilling an appreciation for the need to change can be jarring for any established company.
Agile Product Development
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”– Stephen Hawking
Iterative delivery of customer value is mainstream now. But for a true competitive advantage mix in learning, reflecting, adapting in a methodical and sustainable fashion and organisations will reap clear rewards.
Cloud Transitions
“Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing" - Paul Maritz, VMware CEO
Lifting and shifting applications to the cloud is not where the value comes from. Thoughtful re-architecture and re-implementation to leverage the myriad of advantages of cloud is where money and savings are made.
Our achievements
The perfect balance of innovative thinking, performance and delivery
Company-wide Digital Transformation
Payments company
Delivering more, more quickly, with less was achieved through the application of Systems Thinking across the entire organisation. Overlaying this with the sound principles of Agile and DevOps created a tangible transformation that all could be involved in. We were not only involved in the planning, execution and delivery of this £25+ million programme but initially identified the transformation need and proposed it to the C-suite.
DevOps & Agile Implementation
Insurance company
Using DevOps principles and practices, alongside an Agile methodology, we took a £50m customer-facing website to a 2-weekly delivery cycle. We leaned heavily on automation and a blameless postmortem culture to move steadily to our goal, allowing the website to double its revenue in a single year.
Software Development Lifecycle Strategy
Investment bank
Standardised the processes and tools of the software development lifecycle for an area of over 400 developer across 3 continents. Working with the teams, we aligned their needs with the advantages of aligned working practices to boost productivity and personnel movement within the department.
Scrum Implementation
Investment bank
We took delight in being able to introduce an area of the bank that traditionally suffered from high-risk 3-monthly releases to the model of low-risk, 2-week iterations. Deep training of the teams and stakeholders in the fundamental differences in these two models was the key to a successful outcome.
Agile Portfolio Planning & Budgeting
Investment bank
By adopting an iterative mindset we helped a department service their annual financial planning requirements while internally adopting an Agile methodology.
