Live Site Culture & Site Reliability Engineering
Explores how agile teams use DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering to deliver high-quality software rapidly, with insights from Microsoft’s Azure …
Deliver valuable, usable products through iterative learning, customer feedback, and continuous improvement. Align strategy, discovery, and delivery to maximise outcomes and reduce risk.
 

Product Development is the systematic process of delivering valuable and usable products through iterative learning, customer feedback, and continuous improvement. It encompasses the alignment of strategy, discovery, and delivery to maximise outcomes while minimising risk. This concept is crucial as it enables teams to respond effectively to changing market demands and customer needs, fostering an environment where innovation can thrive.
By integrating practices from Agile, Lean, and DevOps, Product Development promotes a culture of collaboration and transparency, allowing cross-functional teams to work cohesively towards shared goals. It emphasises the importance of understanding customer feedback loops, which inform product iterations and enhancements, ensuring that the end product not only meets but exceeds user expectations.
The long-term, systemic nature of Product Development means that it is not merely about delivering a product but about creating a sustainable framework for ongoing value delivery. This approach encourages teams to embrace experimentation and learning, leading to improved efficiency and effectiveness in product delivery. By focusing on continuous improvement and adaptability, organisations can cultivate resilience and maintain a competitive edge in an ever-evolving landscape. The emphasis on value delivery ensures that every effort contributes meaningfully to the organisation’s strategic objectives, reinforcing the importance of a well-defined Product Development process in achieving long-term success.
Explores how agile teams use DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering to deliver high-quality software rapidly, with insights from Microsoft’s Azure …
Explains why relying on story points and velocity signals team immaturity in Scrum, and highlights better ways to build confidence and predictability …
Liberating Structures is a set of simple, adaptable facilitation methods designed to make meetings more interactive, inclusive, and productive. Each …
Explores how Agile has shifted from top-down management to decentralised decision-making, highlighting ongoing challenges and the move towards true …
Copying scaled agile frameworks fails because each business needs a tailored, evidence-based approach to agility that fits its unique culture, …
Learn to manage software projects using Scrum and Visual Studio, covering backlog management, sprint planning, team collaboration, agile testing, and …
Agile emphasises values and principles to guide teams through complex, uncertain work, enabling adaptation and improvement where fixed steps cannot …
Explores how a skilled product owner drives value, aligns teams with strategy, and boosts product success during economic uncertainty and …
Explains why environment-based branching slows development, and recommends using feature flags and progressive rollouts for simpler, faster, and safer …
Explores the limitations of story points, optimal team sizes, and the benefits of emergent architecture for improving agile practices and team …
An Internal Developer Platform streamlines development processes, enabling teams to build, test, and deploy applications efficiently within a …
Explains how to scale Professional Scrum across multiple teams using Visual Studio Team Services, covering automation, Nexus integration, and …
Learn DevOps principles and hands-on CI/CD using Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio, and Azure to improve team collaboration, delivery, and …
Explores the benefits and challenges of collocation in Scrum teams, comparing face-to-face collaboration with remote work, and offering practical …
Learn how to build a compelling business case for agile adoption by aligning benefits with key metrics, stakeholder goals, and inclusive change …
Change in organisations is a continuous, evolutionary process driven by experimentation and adaptation, not a one-time transformation or fixed end …
Unrealized Value is one of the four key value areas of Evidence‑Based Management and represents a group of measures focused on the potential value …
Enable Business Agility to rapidly adapt, innovate, and deliver value in an ever-changing market.
Learn how Kanban practices can be integrated into Professional Scrum teams to improve workflow, transparency, and delivery using the new Scrum.org PSK …
Explains how Scrum teams rely on three key roles—Influencers, Entrepreneurs, and Makers—to balance leadership, value creation, and technical delivery.
Fostering innovation, risk-taking, and value-driven decision-making in business.
Managing and reducing technical debt to maintain sustainable development velocity.
Fostering engagement, ownership, and high performance within agile teams.
We partner with businesses across diverse industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, engineering, transportation, hospitality, entertainment, legal, government, and military sectors.

Illumina
NIT A/S

ALS Life Sciences

Sage

Ericson

Epic Games

Healthgrades

Slaughter and May

Schlumberger

Genus Breeding Ltd

Alignment Healthcare

Boeing

Flowmaster (a Mentor Graphics Company)

Xceptor - Process and Data Automation

Deliotte

Higher Education Statistics Agency

Lean SA

Brandes Investment Partners L.P.

Royal Air Force

Washington Department of Enterprise Services

Washington Department of Transport

New Hampshire Supreme Court

Department of Work and Pensions (UK)

Nottingham County Council

Qualco

Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG)

Slaughter and May

MacDonald Humfrey (Automation) Ltd.

Workday

Akaditi