Transforming to reach higher!
Enable change in your code and organization – leverage your business with software!
At some point, most companies need to change to grow and reach new levels of business ambition, either from a state of temporary struggles or from starting up and being ready to scale up. A new strategy is in place, but transformation is needed to execute it! Software plays a crucial part in your ability to scale.
All transformations are digital transformations
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.
How we can help
Read more about what we do and how we do itFind and solve the bottleneck
There's always a bottleneck in your software or organization that hinders fast and sustainable transformation. Solving your bottlenecks one by one allows for fast and early impact for your business.
Deliver outstanding software
Delivering outstanding software is our core business. Whether we start from scratch, adapt your existing code, or join forces to create something new doesn't matter. We focus on value rather than systems.
Collaborate to deliver and improve
In the beautiful world of software, you can improve your ability to deliver value while executing! By integrating our consultants into existing teams, we help them increase their delivery frequency and quality while contributing to the product ourselves.
Enable your transformation starting today!
Can your software and organization develop the ability to support your transformation to reach higher? We believe so, and here are a few ways to find out.
Team workshop: accelerate your software delivery
One of our consultants visits your software team to provide learning, inspiration, and hands-on experience in the art of accelerated software delivery. Continuous Delivery, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Extreme Programming (XP), your software architecture, and automated testing (with TDD) are on the agenda, and all discussions start in your reality.
Turbo insight: Find your transformation bottleneck!
In a one-day workshop, we combine our software expertise with your business and domain knowledge to mine for insight into your software and organization. What’s the ambition, what’s standing in the way, and where are the bottlenecks that hinder fast and sustainable transformation?
Draft an architectural vision
Figure out where to go to be able to go fast. Looking at your current state and the demands of your overall business strategy, we draft a vision of high-level principles and foundational ideas for your future architecture and organization.
Want to learn more?
My four insights on adapting software delivery to scale up – factor10.com 2024-09-27.
Let's talk!
We would love to meet up and discuss how your software and organization can enable transformation to reach higher! Please contact Jimmy today!
