Contact us if you want to:
- shorten lead times for reaching your customer and market
- become more productive and deliver even more value at lower cost
- become better at dealing with new priorities, new opportunities and late changes – while still achieving what is best for your customer
- receive help in getting, for example, Lean, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP, or TDD to work as you had hoped.
This is what we do!
When we improve development businesses our focus is on understanding what the value flow looks like – from the customer’s requirements through to delivery of the business value. We use logistic methods in which we remove bottlenecks in the flow, reducing the amount of work in progress and creating fixed delivery points to increase productivity. Measurements made by Forrester Research have shown that these methods have led to 30% improvements in shortened lead times and reduced costs.
The approach we use to initiate continuous improvement is also based on Lean and Agile principles. Initially, we must understand our client’s situation and goals and, based on this, start to attack the right things in the right order. Quite simply, we create a Change Backlog-like Scrum. We have a management team that owns this backlog and we make sure we get frequent and constant deliveries of new habits and behaviors.
Small steps, high visibility and strong commitment are the cornerstones. We have packaged this method of achieving change – Agile Change Centre (ACC), for more information please contact Anders Sixtesson. As consultants we act as coaches and can ourselves take on certain roles temporarily to accomplish a desired, sustainable change.
These are our skills!
We are, of course, experts in the use of all the “hard” methods and tools of Lean and Agile, because we practice them in our own software development.
However, the most important factor in getting Lean and Agile to function as intended is that the majority of employees actually have to acquire new habits and behaviors. The factors that are always part of a successful change assignment are:
- leadership
- team building
- modifying certain roles
- being able to set goals
- driving change forward
And this is precisely what we have extensive experience of at Softhouse.