Agile requires commitment, time, attention, training & longer-term, certification, but above all else a change in mindset. It’s about doing less more often, deploying in increments. Furthermore, it is a complete change to a company’s target operating model. The transition requires stakeholder & fiscal support, the rewards associated with successful transition can be enormous.
Common client challenges:
Visibility
- Invariably stakeholders & management don’t always have access to the right types & detail of information to support decision making. This leads to uninformed decision-making, increased costs, reduced quality & project overruns
Uniformity
- Resources are retitled but not retrained, there is no uniformity in the way people working leading to increased sprint deliverables, failed deliverables & increased costs
Traceability
- Multiple tooling & lack of integration & real-time reporting result in an inability to measure coverage, quality & the true cost of what is being delivered & risks associated with what has not been tested. This becomes a breeding ground for legacy technical debt
Repeatability
- CI/CD pipelines are not correctly configured, not utilising automation correctly & not incorporating IAST, DAST & SAST into the build, this results in legacy technical debt, poor quality deliverables & increased costs
Quality
- Sprint constraints, lack of automation & traceability result in poor quality deliverables as alleged risk-based approaches are adopted without understanding the true risks & decision impacts
Governance
- A lack of integration & real-time reporting compounded with time constraints, confusion over accountability & process result in unauthorised deployments & increased costs
Capacity & financial management
- Not being able to track resource allocation efficiently due to process deviation & inefficient utilisation of the adopted change managing tooling result in misleading capacity utilisation & misdirected financial investment
Our solution benefits:
- Design documentation
- Business & logical data models
- Requirements design, epics, features & user stories
- Code design
- Test design
- Legacy debt identification & remediation
- Training, certification, support & mentoring
- Automated CRM to ideation enablement
- Automated ideation to product backlog
- Automated capacity management & financial modelling
- Left to right automated release management underpinned by bespoke tooling integration & reporting
- Bespoke tooling customisation
- Realtime staged management information
- Unified processes across design, build, test & deploy
- CI/CD pipeline automated test, automated build
- Automated code coverage, security vulnerability detection, increased automated test coverage, repeatability
- Accountability & responsibility underpinned by automated decision & quality gating
Get in touch via transformation.services@sqa-consulting.com for more information.
