What We Do
We create customized programs to assist our clients in adopting Lean-Agile practices as they develop hardware and complex software products in regulated, mission critical and safety critical industries.
Managing Your Lean-Agile Organization Transformation
As more and more businesses experience the on-time, high-quality performance of Lean-Agile teams, they are looking for practical ways to scale this methodology throughout their organization.
Lean-Agile Partners helps organizations apply Lean-Agile practices to the development of software and hardware, and to affect organizational change.
Lean-Agile Partners also offers resources to help organizations integrate Agile methods in the following specialized areas:
Too often, larger consultancies get their priorities wrong. They establish a complex organisation that needs a large, steady billing income, and it becomes more important to maximize billable hours rather than maximize benefit for the client.
Our independence works to your advantage.
Lean-Agile Partners offers a complete set of services to assist you in conducting a successful Agile Adoption program:
Lean-Agile Partners helps organizations apply Lean-Agile practices to the development of software and hardware, and to affect organizational change.
Lean-Agile Partners also offers resources to help organizations integrate Agile methods in the following specialized areas:
- Managing Lean-Agile Transformations in enterprise organizations.
- Using Agile Methods for Embedded Systems Development (including safety-critical applications and working within regulated industries, such as medical, defense, and financial).
- Applying Lean-Agile practices in product lifecycle management
- Engaging and retaining your customers as stakeholders
- Managing resources in an Agile community
Too often, larger consultancies get their priorities wrong. They establish a complex organisation that needs a large, steady billing income, and it becomes more important to maximize billable hours rather than maximize benefit for the client.
Our independence works to your advantage.
Lean-Agile Partners offers a complete set of services to assist you in conducting a successful Agile Adoption program:
- Start by understanding the surprises others have encountered on this path. The Cutter Consortium Executive Report "The Four Pillars of Agile Adoption", by Lean-Agile Partner Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, will show you how an Agile adoption effort failed, even though every one of its Agile projects was successful.
- If you'd like to discuss possibilities, we offer a complimentary initial consultation. We'll meet with you and your project team to answer your questions— about Agile practices, about how coaching works, about anything you need to know.
- Next step could be to consider whether a "Strategy Session" makes sense to map out a path to Agile success for your company. Or you may prefer to start with a training course. Our "One-Day Intro to Lean-Agile" is ideal, though we offer a variety of training courses to match the variety of roles and business needs.
- Already using Agile? Perhaps an "Agile Health Check" is just the ticket to give you a fresh perspective on things, or to help with an issue you're having.
- If you build embedded systems, you've come to the right place. Lean-Agile Partner Nancy Van Schooenderwoert was one of the first agile practitioners to successfully adapt Agile methods to the demands of working with hardware and firmware. The result was a 3-times productivity increase, together with a bug rate ten times lower than the best traditional teams, as described in "Embedded Agile Project by the Numbers with Newbies".
- Once you've got your Agile adoption strategy worked out and had the training you need, the best way to be ready for the unpredictable is to connect with people who've been on this path before and know your situation. Our service "Enterprise Coaching" can flex to be as extensive or as minimal as you need.