Consulting

Are you finding it hard to meet and exceed your customers' expectations? Is your organization struggling to compete because you're unable to respond to customers' requests quickly with high quality software? Do people in your organization fail to understand your vision and work towards it? Is your organization lacking transparency, preventing you from seeing what's actually happening inside it? Are decisions getting made or being made too slowly in your organization? Does the structure and culture of your organization fail to provide a habitat where people can work effectively and freely, be creative and achieve results without impediment?

We can help you deliver value to your customers continuously. By reshaping your organization along product streams, we can help you grow cross-functional product teams that share your vision and are capable of responding quickly to meet customers' needs. We can show your business people how to maximize return on investment and we can work with your financial people so that you have more choice and flexibility in how you fund your product portfolio. We'll show you how to collect and report empirical data and maintain total visibility so that you will always know the status of your projects. We'll help you focus on leadership and collaboration rather than management and process, and transform your working environment so that people are empowered to self-organize and feel safe taking responsibility and making commitments. This will give you the confidence to push the decision-making to the people doing the work so they can deliver more value and increased quality with a sense of urgency.

Coaching

Is your product development failing to realize your vision? Are your products failing to provide the value that you expect? Are you failing to deliver the highest value features to your customers at least every month? Do your teams need a tune-up?

We can help you identify what you need, in the order you need it. We can coach your teams to deliver value and high quality reliably and in a repeatable manner, improving their throughput, raising their morale and setting them up for success. By pairing with your people we can show them how we use agile practices and lean thinking, and demonstrate how our values and principles can help them do the right thing. We can help them develop the necessary skills and discipline to deliver working software with fewer defects, again and again.

Startup Enablement

Are you a startup and need to get something out there quickly?

We can bootstrap your product development so that you can begin achieving business milestones while you're still recruiting. Hire our team to be your team. We can get your product into production early and incrementally, putting your company on the map and earning money for your business. And then, as your business takes off, we can handover product development to your team gradually, leaving you with a high-quality solution to build on.

Team for Hire

Do you need a product developed without the organizational overhead of forming a dedicated team? Do you need some extra bandwidth to explore product concepts and new revenue streams? Or do you simply need some creative and innovative solutions from experienced professionals?

We can provide an experienced ready-to-go agile team with a proven track record of delivery, that has all the skills and can hit the floor running, to work at your place or ours.

Value and Flow

Giving your customers what they want keeps them happy and coming back for more. We aim to understand value from your customers' perspective and enable it to flow through your organisation to your customers. Our goal is to deliver functionality with the highest value first and get your products earning money more quickly.

Delivery

We deliver high-quality, working software continuously, allowing your customers to see new features regularly that satisfy their needs. This provides you with early and frequent return on investment, minimizes the deployment risks to your production environment, and reduces your operational costs.

Quality

We pull the quality lever right back and then we pull it some more. Our pursuit of technical excellence is relentless but we don't wait for perfection, we find a place to start, we begin, and we improve from there. Quality code enables us to move quickly. We deliver more value in less time with zero maintenance, saving you money now and in the future.

People and Relationships

Relationships and people are key to success. We respect people and everyone's opinion is important. We encourage open and honest communication and value constructive disagreement. We invest in relationships as cooperative partnerships built on trust where the risks and rewards are shared.

Collaboration and Teamwork

Our approach is highly collaborative and we believe in collocated people and face-to-face communication. We create a community spirit with a conversational atmosphere that instils social responsibility and a sense of team, and cultivates awareness and both emotional and social intelligence. We encourage everyone to engage, listen, speak, ask questions, seek and give feedback, share knowledge and learn together. We facilitate self-organization to solve problems, innovate and pursue and achieve success as a team.

Energy

We are passionate about what we do and our energy and excitement creates a dynamic and energized working environment. We hustle and we have fun. It's contagious and people enjoy working with us. By maintaining a healthy balance of work and play we are able to set a sustainable pace, delivering value with uncompromised quality.

Craftsmanship

As craftsmen we take pride in our work. We work to continuously improve our skills and we strive for elegant and simple solutions. We build software iteratively. We make progress through successive refinements, evolving the functionality and keeping it constantly visible and available for feedback.

We write code in pairs. Two people collaborating with a combined energy, sharing ideas and exploring options, work smarter and faster and produce better results.

We are test-driven. We develop automated acceptance tests first so that we will know when we're done. And we develop automated unit tests before we write code to steer the design. We refactor our code repeatedly to keep it clean and simple and to ensure it clearly communicates intent. The battery of automated tests evolves with the code base and provides an executable regression suite, which makes it easier to understand the code and make changes in the future.

We integrate continuously. Every time a code change is committed to version control, a full build kicks off automatically and executes every automated test. If a failure occurs it's resolved immediately. When a defect is found it's fixed without delay.

Our working practices, performed with diligence and discipline, ensure that we always deliver high-quality working software.

Trust, Honesty and Courage

We are united by our integrity. We speak truthfully and never spin or bullshit. Trust is a big part of our culture and we encourage everyone to see things as they really are and to say what they think without fear of discrimination or retribution. We provide safety and freedom, which gives people courage to be creative, take risks and make mistakes. Failure presents an opportunity to find a better way and we encourage people to fail fast, learn quickly and seek improvement. Because we trust people to do the right thing, people take responsibility, they make commitments, they hold each other accountable and stuff gets done.

Innovation

Our innovation is business innovation and it's about economics, not technology. We solve problems by innovating simple solutions that create visible business benefits and add value. We do more of what matters by eliminating what doesn't.