Agile Practice
Overview
Built on a foundation of Agile and Lean principles, ESP’s Agile practice fosters a culture of engagement, collaboration and innovation at all levels of the organization, from development teams to portfolio management and corporate leadership. The resulting Agile enterprise is a highly adaptive business, capable of rapidly delivering customer value and enabling even complex, large-scale programs to instinctively respond to change.
We work with organizations to build capabilities that improve processes, technology, and talent to support value delivery with agility at scale.
Our Agile Services
Agile Readiness
Agile transformation is a major undertaking that can lead to great benefits! Agile teams move faster, become more adaptable to frequently changing priorities and requirements, and foster accountability, resulting in greater productivity and value. However, few teams possess a consistent level of competency in the skills necessary for success with Agile.
ESP’s Agile Readiness Assessment provides qualitative and quantitative feedback along with recommendations for short and long-term actions that dramatically improve a firms’ likelihood of success with Agile. We conduct a brief evaluation of the people, processes and tools in use today to identify weak points and skills gaps that should be addressed before embarking on an Agile Transformation. We can then design an approach that will elevate proficiency in key areas to build a strong foundation upon which an Agile organization can be built.
Agile Transformation
Agile has the potential to improve entire organizations, not just development teams. For the significant and lasting effects of Agile to take hold, change must be cultivated and encouraged from the most senior levels within an organization. Firms where continuous improvement is valued and encouraged across the entire customer value stream can deliver in a rapid AND efficient manner.
While there are many Agile methodologies to choose from, most firms select the elements which best support their organization’s culture and objectives. The result is an interpretation of Agile tailored to transform multiple functional departments across an enterprise.
Agile Product Delivery
Delivering across an organization or within a division requires coordinated alignment to the enterprise agile strategy and design. A well-developed Agile IT operating model and a product-centric organizational model are needed to support transformation and innovation. Implementation of these strategies benefits from the experience of a partner who has helped a variety of organizations achieve success with Agile. ESP can anticipate and help avoid common pitfalls typically encountered along the path to Agile Transformation.
DevOps enablement
DevOps focuses on constant testing and delivery. The ideal goal is to deliver code to production one or more times a day. When combined with Agile, DevOps is the key to maximal productivity.
Agile for Business
The principles of Agile can be applied across an entire organization, unlocking value and empowering companies to deliver innovation/new-products, moving from idea to prototype in a very short period of time compared with non-Agile teams.
Agile Program Management and Staffing
ESP has more than 20 years helping clients improve their ability to deliver projects reliably and efficiently. The introduction of Agile to the program teams has been highly successful and a welcome enhancement to the practice.
Agile is a natural fit for Program Management teams. Like Program or Project Management, Agile relies on a structured methodology to achieve success. It specifically addresses the gap between customer need and development & testing teams. And Agile benefits from strong communications and consistent skill levels within & between teams.
Agile Coaching & Training
We bring extensive experience to help organizations avoid failures of Agile implementation and operate with more efficiency. Our Coaches and Agile Practitioners assist organizations in evaluation of tools, implementation of various techniques, and continuous integration, and can assist with tracking and monitoring progress towards Agile Maturity.
We bring extensive experience to help organizations avoid failures of Agile implementation and operate with more efficiency. Our Coaches and Agile Practitioners assist organizations in evaluation of tools, implementation of various techniques, and continuous integration, and can assist with tracking and monitoring progress towards Agile Maturity.