Take your product engineering practice to world-class

Product strategy

We help you review your products and product architecture to ensure you have a data-driven, customer-focused market strategy that strikes the right balance between innovating new value and nurturing existing products.

Building the right product

By adopting Continuous Discovery practices and using value filters to prioritise effort, we can help ensure you’re constantly validating the market-fit of your digital products and delivering the highest customer value first.

We love solving product problems, keeping complexity out of customers’ sight and delivering beautiful experiences that foster loyalty and recommendation.

Supporting teams to deliver

Shifting from ‘project’ to ‘product delivery’ is a critical foundation of a world-class product engineering practice. It allows multi-skilled, cross-functional teams to organise around value, take ownership of the value they deliver and see how it contributes to business goals/OKRs.

We’re experts in organising and managing value stream/s that support this shift. We can help to create the most effective team topologies for any stage in digital product delivery, measure the flow of work and the value teams deliver and identify the bottlenecks which hold them back.

Each team in your engineering practice should adopt the contemporary, lean ways of working that are crucial to delivering products at speed, responding to feedback and continuously improving the value customers receive. We can help transform how your people work and create the space for them to succeed.

Value Stream and Portfolio

When business, product and engineering leaders can all see how work flows in the system, they’ll also see where the constraints are and be able to make improvements. In most enterprises however, delays in software delivery are invisible or difficult to diagnose.

If you can see issues like a lack of alignment between technology and business leaders, too much work or disconnected end-to-end delivery processes, then Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and Value Stream Management (VSM) are two fast-growing practices that can help identify and deal with them.

LPM uses Lean Principles to help leaders focus on value delivery. It optimises portfolio investment by determining work that should be done (supports strategy and objectives) and work that shouldn’t. VSM gives stakeholders the visibility and a common language to diagnose delays and uncover high-value improvement opportunities. Metrics helps leaders track quality and measure the effectiveness of improvements in accelerating flow. Are you ready to ‘do less’ and see more?

Executive Coaching

Changing the landscape for the delivery of customer value is hard. Energy and incentives for change are essential. And that comes from two places. The teams which do the work and the leadership of the business. Ignoring either results in little or no change.

Teams become motivated to evolve and try new things when they can do so without fear. So leaders must provide incentives of safety, appropriate funding and a positive environment for change. Our Executive Coaching service helps leaders find ways to do this. These might include making subtle shifts in perspective on delivery and experimentation, new resourcing models, creating multi-skilled teams to work with short customer feedback cycles. Or it can just be a pointer towards case studies that light the path of possibility.

We enable leaders to ‘give teams what they need and then get out of the way’. The leadership role becomes more about advocacy, showing what great looks like and providing the right space for teams to focus on flow. Could your leaders benefit from input from the right coaches and mentors?