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Agile Delivery

Empowering organizations with the tools, processes, and mindsets to transition to agile methodology

Most companies, regardless of their industry, will reach a tipping point where digital capabilities and agility become a matter of survival. Organizations that face high pressures to deliver more, while radically reducing cost and increasing quality, are looking to adopt agile into every facet of their business.

However, many organizations have been designed with a focus on predictability and control instead of speed and flexibility. Rigid processes, siloed and inflexible organization structures, and monolithic IT systems often stand in the way of effective change.

We work with companies to rapidly transform into a fully agile organization. Our science-based approach to agility focuses on both business and IT for a truly enterprise-wide transformation.

What we do

Technology

We work with organizations to set up a modular, independent micro-service architecture, adopt the tools and infrastructure needed to enhance the developer experience and facilitate agile processes, focus on continuous delivery (rapid deployment, error resolution, code integration, automation), and align all the system’s platforms around the business direction and needs.

Structure

We focus on clarifying roles and responsibilities to accelerate decision making, aligning the organizational structure and the operating model to minimize handoffs and maximize delivery, develop guidelines for the optimal level of co-location within project teams, and set up a governance structure to ensure the full alignment of strategic priorities.

People

We work with organizations to set up a messaging and communication plan to reinforce the company’s strategy and vision, develop the soft skills and mindsets leadership needs to foster collaboration, assess the company’s talent approach, identify current capability gaps, develop career trajectories, and instill a culture of trust, transparency, and collaboration.

Processes

We work to transform rigid systems by fostering cross-functional interactions across functions, optimizing sourcing strategies and vendor management, determining success metrics that align with overall strategy, and creating dashboards to measure that performance.

Featured insights

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Beyond the anecdote: True drivers of digital-delivery performance

– We’ve leveraged data from more than 1,700 teams to understand the relationship between capabilities and performance outcomes.
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Revisiting agile teams after an abrupt shift to remote
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Implementing agile ways of working in IT to improve citizen experience
– Government agencies are under pressure to deliver more and better services to their stakeholders. Agile ways of working can be... transformative.
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Agile in enterprise resource planning: A myth no more
– ERP transformations are never easy. Agile can help improve your results.
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Growing your own agility coaches to adopt new ways of working
– Agile coaches play a vital role in enterprise-wide agile transformations. To develop enough coaches, companies should create specialized... training academies.

Featured experts

Santiago Comella-Dorda
Partner, Boston
Works with clients to define, develop, and implement digital solutions to succeed in an ever-accelerating world. Helps large organizations...
Belkis Vasquez-McCall
Partner, Southern California
Leads Build by McKinsey in North America, helping organizations plan and build digital solutions to accelerate transformation...

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