Agile delivery - Project One

Background

Adopting an agile approach encourages innovation and enables new initiatives to quickly deliver value

Agile delivery provides flexibility and speed to market by breaking down a product or a service to the ‘Minimum Viable Product’. Critical to success is making sure the business and delivery teams work together, stay focused on goals, manage changing priorities and drive productivity to deliver a better product. This will improve morale, drive efficiency and, improve the overall delivery success for the business.

Agile is about placing the end-customer at the centre of delivery and ensuring all work is considered from the perspective of the value the digital service or product adds to their customers and business.

Many perceive agile as applicable solely to software development and even then, frequently ‘smoke and mirrors’ that often flatters to deceive. However, Project One’s experience has demonstrated that agile approaches can be used to deliver effective transformation across a spectrum of environments. Importantly, agile is simply a delivery mindset.

Keep it simple and focus on the outcome. Start with the user needs and focus on the iterative delivery until you meet the point of ‘done’. Remember to keep showing your product to your users and your sponsors, listen to their feedback and improve based on real insights, not assumptions.

Relevant articles and customer stories

Insight Agile delivery Steve Calder

Insight Why agile delivery is more about mindset than it is about method Steve Calder

Customer story Agile PMO in a leading online retailer

Customer story Implementing agile delivery in a global retail bank

Insight Can you undertake an ERP transformation using agile? David Knappett

Insight Failing to realise the value of acquisitions? Agile integration could be the answer Steve Calder

Insight Kick-start your digital transformation with an agile approach Steve Calder

Insight Lifting the veil on agile Steve Calder

“Project One has taught us the right way to do this, giving us future tools, facilitating and diffusing tension.”

CIO
European Telco

Award winning work

The Financial Times has listed Project One, for the fourth consecutive year, as one of the UK’s leading management consultants in its annual report, with a record-breaking 8 Silver awards for the firm, including being the only independent, SME boutique consultancy to be recognised with a silver rating for Digital Transformation and Organisation & Change.

Adopt agile delivery with a greater focus on the customer

Adopting an agile approach encourages innovation and enables new initiatives to quickly deliver value

Award winning work