Transforming to reach higher!

Can you imagine a significant strategic scale-up today where software does not play a part? We can’t! Companies devoted to scaling up often have at least one of these problems:

• Your business-critical software is underperforming. You talk about “technical debt” and experience high costs and long lead times to make even small changes.

• Your team's ability to deliver quality software needs to accelerate to be able to replace, adapt and create software to meet new business demands.

• You need to figure out how to digitalize your products, operations or business models to leverage growth.

You don’t need the whole picture, you need direction

Going fast is pointless if you don’t know where you’re going. But figuring out where to go is not that hard! Your architectural vision should support your strategy, guide decision-making, and only consist of a few high-level principles and foundational ideas for the architecture and where it should take you.

Keep what brings value

A hot topic is what to keep and what to replace, both in terms of code and organization. It might be genuinely tempting to throw out everything and start over. The focus too often falls on the technology itself: "Is this code any good?" "Is this framework supported?" "Does this architecture perform?"

There is a time for that, but in transformative moments, the focus should be on value and impediments to change. If it brings value and doesn't hinder change, keep it! But if it hinders change or doesn’t bring value, it must be replaced or changed.

Think big, act small

The common approach is to launch significant change projects, aiming to replace, update or introduce whole systems. Instead, we propose a route that allows you to leverage your business value while improving your software for speed, quality, and longevity. Focus on the bottleneck! Identify the bottleneck in the software and organization that hinders a fast and sustainable transformation and solve it, then identify the next one and solve that, and so on. All while gradually reinforcing the ability to accelerate your software delivery.