We believe the purpose of consulting is to gain expert, independent, advice and guidance so decisions may be made.
Guidance leveraged by experience
Sometimes you need to pull in external expert advice and intervention, even if you already know what you are doing! Obtaining that perspective from an external source may provide the foundation and justification required to move things forward.
Our consultants have decades of hands-on experience, working in a multitude of industries, carrying a wide range of roles and titles. We will leverage our expertise to provide you, your teams, and your organization with the independent perspective and recommendations so you may make effective, empirical knowledge-based, data-driven decisions.
Our consulting engagements
We believe every consulting engagement requires a tailored approach because every situation, organization, team, and individual is different. As a result, we won’t sell you a “package” or “cookie cutter” answer. Instead, we will work with you to determine and assess your needs, then build a flexible response to get you the information, data, facts, knowledge, advice, guidance, and recommendations you need.
Below are a few examples of typical agile consulting engagements we are often involved with, however we can adapt or create a tailored experience as needed. We can provide consulting advice for an individual, for a team, for a department or program, or even for an entire organization.
With a tailored agile consulting approach we ensure your solutions are always fit for purpose and provide true intrinsic value.
Agility Assessments
Often, the organizations we work with are either deep into an Agile Transformation, or about to embark on one. We can systematically provide an assessment to benchmark and measure your current level of organizational maturity, and then build a strategy with guidance and advice on what your next steps should be to help mature your organization.
Agile Strategy
Organizations new to Agile, or those looking to revisit their strategy often seek our advice on what works well and what to avoid. We can meet with you to discuss your current organizational goals, and then build an appropriate agile consulting strategy complete with actionable metrics to get you on the path to where you want to be.
Business Improvement
Some organizations we've assisted have felt their business model was OK but it might require some “tweaking”, while others have been be in a crisis or extinction-level threat scenario. Regardless of your current situation, we can work side-by-side with you and your teams to build an appropriate end-to-end business model complete with recommended systemic improvements.
Strategic Planning
As facilitators, we've been brought in to facilitate the creation of a strategic plan for a new or existing organization, department, line of business, or product line. Using Lean and Agile practices, and leveraging interactive, stimulative, innovative approaches we often help craft a new strategy in a matter of a few days rather than a few months.
Service Model Design and Improvement
We often work alongside service teams, facilitators, managers, and leaders to evaluate their current systems and identify bottlenecks, constraints, and dependencies. Then, using that information, we provide guidance on how to build a resilient model that responds quickly to the changing needs of your stakeholders and customers, and works to continuously improve and adapt itself to a higher level of performance.
Product Delivery Model Design and Improvement
We have extensive experience working alongside product and process delivery teams and leaders to help make systemic improvements. The goal of these engagements has often been to help teams, managers, and leaders design a delivery model and approach that provides a predictable flow of value to customers, that is responsive to the changing needs of customers and stakeholders, and that leverages empiricism and fast learning to constantly improve not only the products, but the delivery system itself.
Team or Initiative Launches
One of our more popular requests is to conduct team and initiative launches or resets. These engagements include not only consultation, but training and follow-up coaching to help the team align, mature, and grow together on their path to high performance. We feel conducting a proper launch and providing follow-up support is critical to ensure teams not only get off on the right foot, but keep on running.
Agility Assessments
Often, the organizations we work with are either deep into an Agile Transformation, or about to embark on one. We can systematically provide an assessment to benchmark and measure your current level of organizational maturity, and then build a strategy with guidance and advice on what your next steps should be to help mature your organization.
Agile Strategy
Organizations new to Agile, or those looking to revisit their strategy often seek our advice on what works well and what to avoid. We can meet with you to discuss your current organizational goals, and then build an appropriate agile consulting strategy complete with actionable metrics to get you on the path to where you want to be.
Business Improvement
Some organizations we've assisted have felt their business model was OK but it might require some “tweaking”, while others have been be in a crisis or extinction-level threat scenario. Regardless of your current situation, we can work side-by-side with you and your teams to build an appropriate end-to-end business model complete with recommended systemic improvements.
Strategic Planning
As facilitators, we've been brought in to facilitate the creation of a strategic plan for a new or existing organization, department, line of business, or product line. Using Lean and Agile practices, and leveraging interactive, stimulative, innovative approaches we often help craft a new strategy in a matter of a few days rather than a few months.
Service Model Design and Improvement
We often work alongside service teams, facilitators, managers, and leaders to evaluate their current systems and identify bottlenecks, constraints, and dependencies. Then, using that information, we provide guidance on how to build a resilient model that responds quickly to the changing needs of your stakeholders and customers, and works to continuously improve and adapt itself to a higher level of performance.
Product Delivery Model Design and Improvement
We have extensive experience working alongside product and process delivery teams and leaders to help make systemic improvements. The goal of these engagements has often been to help teams, managers, and leaders design a delivery model and approach that provides a predictable flow of value to customers, that is responsive to the changing needs of customers and stakeholders, and that leverages empiricism and fast learning to constantly improve not only the products, but the delivery system itself.
Team or Initiative Launches
One of our more popular requests is to conduct team and initiative launches or resets. These engagements include not only consultation, but training and follow-up coaching to help the team align, mature, and grow together on their path to high performance. We feel conducting a proper launch and providing follow-up support is critical to ensure teams not only get off on the right foot, but keep on running.