Mindful, Outcomes-Focused Scaling
47% of agile transformations fail. Are your runaway Release Trains going the wrong way on a one-way track?
Are you experiencing challenges in implementing standardized scaling frameworks within your organization? Often, their indiscriminate application can lead to waste, inefficiency and failure.
Our thoughtful and comprehensive approach to scaling can yield significant benefits. Our clients have witnessed a remarkable 67% improvement in business velocity. They have also enjoyed the rapid delivery of features — often within weeks — and have seen an immediate impact on revenue generation. By assessing challenges, aligning strategies, and accelerating delivery, our approach ensures that you avoid the pitfalls of failure and drive measurable, lasting results.
Assess - Identify the Challenges
- Failure Factors: With 47% of Agile transformations failing, organizations often face difficulties due to indiscriminate application of standardized frameworks, resulting in inefficiency, waste, and stalled progress.
- Maturity Assessment: Evaluate your organization’s current Agile practices, cultural readiness, and scaling efforts to identify gaps and opportun
ities for improvement. - Framework Fit: Analyze whether existing scaling frameworks such as SAFe, Disciplined Agile, LeSS, or Scrum at Scale align with your business needs and goals.
Align - Strategize for Effective Scaling
- Transformation Roadmap: Develop a clear, tailored roadmap that prioritizes incremental scaling to mitigate risks and drive sustainable value delivery.
- Business Agility Sparks Operating Model: Leverage our distinctive framework to create a solid foundation for scaling, offering versatility across multiple Agile methodologies.
- Strategic Agility Consulting: Partner with our experts to design fit-for-purpose scaling solutions that align with organizational objectives, ensuring enhanced agility and operational effectiveness.
Accelerate - Drive Scalable and Sustainable Agility
- Achieving Results: Clients have achieved a 67% improvement in business velocity, delivering features within weeks and realizing immediate revenue impact.
- Incremental Scaling: Implement scaling in manageable phases, ensuring continuous delivery of value and adaptability to changing needs.
- Recovery and Stabilization: For failing transformations, deploy proven evaluation techniques and foundational practices to recover stability and momentum.
- End-to-End Agility: Enhance product and project delivery, optimize portfolio management, and embed agility across all levels of the organization to sustain long-term success.
PRODUCT OPERATING MODEL TRANSITION
How do you ramp up with the Product Operating Model? Our executive consultants are world leaders in scaling agile aligning agile for product operating model rollout. We will partner with your organization to develop a mindful, strategic approach, foster value stream teams, deploy product discovery and Lean portfolio management, and leverage the advantages of executive Agile coaching to help you achieve desired business outcomes.
By following LitheSpeed's Assess, Align & Accelerate approach, your organization can seamlessly transition to a Product Operating Model, fostering innovation and delivering market-ready products that align with strategic goals and customer expectations. Turn your ideas into leading market products, with the Product Operating Model and a focus on product discovery and innovation. Utilizing advanced technologies and data-driven insights, we engage in a collaborative process with clients, from ideation to rapid prototyping, underpinned by dual-track Agile discovery and development.
Assess - Evaluate Readiness
- Project to Product Transition: Assess your current focus and identify opportunities to shift from output-driven to outcome-driven delivery for greater customer value.
- Governance and Portfolio Alignment: Evaluate the alignment of governance and portfolio management with Agile organizational design, processes, and practices.
- Process and Cultural Gaps: Conduct a maturity assessment to identify gaps in value stream management, Agile practices, and organizational readiness for strategic agility.
Align - Design a Strategic Roadmap
- Tailored Product Operating Model: Collaborate to design a model that integrates governance, portfolio management, and Agile practices into a cohesive framework.
- Value Stream Optimization: Foster value stream teams and map processes to ensure maximum efficiency and alignment with business goals.
- Dual-Track Agile Discovery and Development: Leverage Agile practices for simultaneous product exploration and development, ensuring rapid iteration based on user feedback and market trends.
- Organizational Change Management: Develop strategies for smooth adoption of new processes, ensuring cultural and structural alignment with Agile principles.
Accelerate - Implement and Optimize
- Rapid Prototyping and Product Discovery: Begin with product discovery to validate customer needs, transitioning into iterative development and feature delivery.
- Lean Portfolio Management: Align investments with strategic objectives to drive value delivery across the organization.
- End-to-End Agile Frameworks: Build responsive organizational structures to enable continuous integration, delivery, and feedback.
- Customer-Centric Innovation: Develop products that are market-ready, leveraging advanced technologies and data-driven insights to resonate with customer needs and preferences.
- Sustainable Agility: Embed practices and tools for long-term success, ensuring continuous improvement and adaptation to evolving market demands.
Product Operating Model Transition
Turn your ideas into leading market products, with the Product Operating Model and a focus on product discovery and innovation. Utilizing advanced technologies and data-driven insights, we engage in a collaborative process with clients, from ideation to rapid prototyping, underpinned by dual-track Agile discovery and development.
We start with product discovery, validating customer needs and market opportunities, and then seamlessly transition into simultaneous feature exploration and development. This agile approach allows for continuous product evolution, aligned with user feedback and market trends.
Through rapid prototyping and a keen focus on consumer needs, our process ensures that each product is not only innovative but also market-ready, resonating with both current trends and customer preferences. This streamlined method guarantees that your product is not just innovative but also viable and primed for market success.
Fit-for-Purpose Agile Process Coaching
LitheSpeed's process coaching is a transformative journey that integrates the core practices of Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban, while also embracing innovative methodologies like Agile x AI.
Our approach begins with establishing and refining Scrum practices, focusing on effective team collaboration, sprint planning, and rapid delivery. We then scale these practices to an enterprise level, aligning teams across complex projects for strategic efficiency. Kanban techniques are implemented to enhance workflow visibility and improve process efficiency. Our unique integration of Agile with AI paves the way for advanced analytics and smarter decision-making. We also focus on elevating Agile engineering skills, ensuring superior product development quality and efficiency.
Our coaching transforms organizational culture, instilling an Agile mindset for a more responsive and adaptable environment. Ultimately, we aim to equip your team with the tools and insights necessary for a sustainable Agile transformation, ensuring long-term success and continuous improvement in a fast-evolving business landscape.
Agile Engineering, DevOps and MLOps Setup
Agile delivery is grounded in high-quality, stable, and tested code, which is essential for building superior products. At LitheSpeed, our engineering coaches are dedicated to enhancing your team's Agile engineering practices and processes, ultimately boosting product quality and accelerating time-to-market. Our coaching includes:
- Building a Deployment Pipeline: Establishing a pipeline with multiple feedback levels for seamless deployment.
- Automated Testing: Enabling fast, reliable automated testing for consistent quality assurance.
- Continuous Integration Discipline: Instituting a rigorous continuous integration process to maintain code quality and ease integration.
- Evolutionary Design and Refactoring: Assisting team members in evolutionary design and refactoring to improve and maintain code.
- Clean Code Practices: Implementing practices to ensure the system remains flexible and responsive.
- Software Craftsmanship: Nurturing a culture of software craftsmanship within the team for enhanced skill and pride in work.
- Minimizing Technical Debt: Helping identify and reduce technical debt for sustained internal quality.
- Metrics and Measurements Design: Creating meaningful metrics and measurements to drive effective change and improvement.
Our focus is to empower your team with the necessary skills and practices to thrive in an Agile environment, ensuring your products stand out for their quality and innovation.
WE HELP WITH
Product Operating Model Transition
Lean Portfolio Management & Adaptive Governance
DEVOPS, Continuous Delivery & MLOps
We adopt a holistic approach that encompasses your people, processes, and products. Our coaches are adept at instilling Lean, DevOps and Agile practices across various programs, enhancing Agile competency among team members in diverse roles, and refining Agile engineering tools, skills, and methods.
Our experience spans leading and executing DevOps and Agile transformations in a broad spectrum of industries and levels of Agile maturity. This comprehensive journey transforms organizations through their teams, empowering them to fully leverage the benefits of Lean and Agile methodologies.
Crucially, our goal is to equip your organization with the tools and insights necessary for sustained change. We focus on building teams that are not only transformed but also self-sustaining, ensuring long-term success and continuous improvement in your Agile journey.
Real solutions with Trusted advisors
Our development team was in a state of disarray, we needed education, process, and solutions to the chaos. We were hoping Lithespeed could give us a base level of Scrum knowledge for the entire team as well as the executive team so we could be aligned in our efforts. We absolutely feel like the Lithespeed engagement gave us what we were asking for and more, they gave our team a sense of excitement for the process and what it could bring to the team.
- Sharlene Cooper, Product Owners Manager, DISA
