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Process Improvement
Improving Product Delivery
Product and Program Management Optimization
Agile and other product development methods can be misunderstood resulting in mal-aligned roles or even priorities. The scope of responsibilities in roles can vary between organizations, being distinct or covered by the same role.
Contact us for a review of your value stream(s) and an assessment of current vs. recommended workflows. We’ll ensure processes providing roadmaps, workplans, and release are optimized to support collaboration, meet product delivery commitments and maximize market returns.
Metrics provide information necessary to understand and improve processes. They may either be leading – providing an indicator for action while the process is underway, or lagging – providing an indicator of a completed process. These can provide transparent, objective and actionable tools for reducing waste and improving results. Yet metrics are often overlooked or even avoided as they are not well understood and lack ownership , despite the potential return to the organization.
Contact us to review your business model and value streams, and assess how metrics might power higher returns for your business
Interestingly enough, many organizations do not invest sufficient upfront time in designing efficient workflows using Agile tracking tools such as Jira, VersionOne, Rally or TFS. The tool is established as the new ‘standard’ without the most basic of standards or guidance or even training to get teams off and running productively. This inefficiency amplifies other process issues and team members have voiced this as a major impediment to feeling productive, leading to low morale. Worse, this contributes to scaling issues when multiple teams collaborate, often in distributed environments.
Contact us for assistance getting your teams or organization aligned on workflow and basic standards.
Strategic planning engages management at the higher levels to reinforce or redefine the vision and mission of the organization identify threats and opportunities, andperform business planning based on a solid business model. . Many organizations neglect this processstep, but then neglect or fail to reinforce the development of program plans and accountability for the plans meaning the organization cannot execute on its opportunities. In other cases, the underlying processes lack basic metrics for management to monitor and manage performance against the success criteria for the plans and governance structures do not support robust decision-making
Contact us for strategic planning guidance and on organizing appropriate governance that reinforces timely action and accountability to achieve strategic business plans.
