Helping You get the most out of your Technology

Team Building, Structuring & Agility

Growing and right-sizing your teams can be an important factor in your success. It’s crucial to balance the technical capabilities in your organisation to maximise delivery and meet your objectives.

Whatever your Ways of Working and your SDLC, these need to be focused on how they advance your Product Roadmap.

Agility as a mindset is critical to adapting to market changes. Energise your teams by developing an open and communicative environment that promotes collaboration and productive discussion, leading to a culture that commits and delivers.

Performance Improvement

Building technology products can be complicated. Focus needs to be maintained on what you do as well as how you do it.

No matter what shape your organisation is in, inefficiencies and poor practices can creep in over time. It is important to understand and address issues which may be affecting your delivery in quite subtle ways.

Technology is an ever-changing space. What was right some time ago may not be true today. Changing tack on a whim is not the right approach, but continual ratification of past decisions with an eye to possible adaptation will keep your organisation on the right course.

Controlling Costs

Spending money wisely is important. Maximise the ROI of your technology organisation by maintaining a focus on where funds are allocated and why. Reduce costs by driving out inefficiencies and ‘waste’ that is often under the radar or just ‘accepted’.

Empower your teams by motivating them to understand the relationship between costs and delivery. Develop and Run costs are often not seen as part of the product lifecycle but they are critical to building viable and sustainable solutions to your business drivers.

Technology budgets are hard-won. Communicating how and why things are done can alleviate tensions over budgets and perceived value for money. After all, good technology is not just good code. It's a solution that is fit for purpose at the right price.

Cloud Adoption & Migration

Cloud Technology has introduced a new paradigm that offers a fundamentally different way of architecting and deploying software services. Navigating a path into the cloud has to be done with care, knowledge and understanding of the benefits and potential tradeoffs.

Building in the cloud is not easier, it’s just very different. Getting a cloud adoption or migration strategy right will not happen organically, it needs to be managed and planned with a razor focus on desired outcomes.

Product Development, POC, MVP

Building virtual products can be expensive. It’s a hard lesson to learn if you get it wrong. Stick to the product’s reason d’être and prove it works.

Build what you can, when it is needed. It’s tempting to think all the 'bells and whistles' are needed ASAP, but are they? Focus on getting core functionality right before spending time and effort on additional features.

Architecture & Engineering

A coherent architectural and engineering strategy is vital to delivering services that are fit for purpose, performant, flexible and therefore, potentially long-lived. This should be open to challenge and change as new technologies appear and legacy ones fade.

The popularity of micro-services architectures adds an interesting dynamic to the concept of ’the system’. Complications and ambiguities can arise with using loosely-coupled, client agnostic services.

Architects and Engineers must be able to investigate, understand and propose radical new solutions as long as they are founded on a desire to achieve the company goals and not for the sake of modernity.