Delivery and Change practitioners in Agile, Scrum, DSDM, SAfe and Extreme tools and techniques. Cloud based Agile tools and processes to drive business delivery in complex change environments. Practical setup, configuration, optimisation and delivery of services to meet business needs.

Key Team Roles that ensure Success in Cloud Delivery.

Successful teams will often include the following key roles.

1. Product Owner - responsible for defining the product roadmap and priorities, managing stakeholders, and setting clear goals.
2. Scrum Master - responsible for ensuring the team follows Agile principles and processes, facilitating meetings, and removing any impediments to progress.
3. Development Team - responsible for designing, developing, and testing the product as well as providing feedback on user stories and acceptance criteria.
4. Cloud Architect - responsible for ensuring that the technical design meets the business requirements and is secure, resilient, scaleable and cost effective.
5. DevOps Team - responsible for automating processes in order to speed up deployment times and reduce operational costs.
6. Quality Assurance Team - responsible for identifying potential issues with the product before it goes into production and ensuring it meets user expectations. While we can provide all these roles for your cloud services, it remains important that clients have an integrated and engaged role in ICT project delivery, and hence we would alwys recommend that Product Owner's are provided by the client from permanent, empowered staff.

Key Features and Benefits of Agile Project Delivery Services

Features

• Practical setup, configuration, optimisation and delivery of cloud based Agile tooling
• Organise teams across the enterprise, giving coordinated, managed delivery at scale.
• Use of automation tools to make the process run smoothly.
• Understand and manage the delivery (and solution) backlog, enabling it to be prioritised.
• Improve clarity on Team Accountability and Transparency.
• Application of Agile tools and processes to business delivery in complex change environments
• Azure DevOps, ADO, JIRA, Confluence in public and private cloud.
• Integration into complimentary tools and services (eg MIS, EIS PowerBI etc)
• Design and implement Agile delivery system, cadence, process optimisation etc

Benefits

• Encourage improvement in delivery, enabling enhanced performance.
• Drive opportunities for learning and the freedom to take risks, leading to growth and innovation.
• Improved Business and user satisfaction with higher-quality delivery.
• Increase ability to attract, retain and empower talent.
• Reduce resource costs and risks while increasing return on investment.
• Meaningful collaboration between business, service and operations to provide faster feedback.
• Increased innovation speed and agility to compete in the marketplace.
• Increase reliability with swift feedback on achievement of objective.
• Scale delivery resources and timelines to meet goals, objectives and business priorities.

Using an Agile approach, to delivery your Cloud Services. This simple 6 step high level approach outlines the key phases that typically we will use during the planning and delivery of your Cloud Projects. This high level outline will be tailored to ensure the process, and structure of the delivery is appropriate for the goal and circumstances.

1. Planning: Create a road map of the tasks and activities required to reach the desired outcome, along with setting the timeline and budget for the project.
2. Design: Design the architecture and components of the cloud solution, including the cloud infrastructure, software and services.
3. Development: Build the components of the cloud solution, ensuring that all the elements work together as intended.
4. Testing: Test the solution to ensure that it meets user requirements and performs as expected.
5. Deployment: Deploy the cloud solution to the production environment, making it available for users.
6. Support: Support and maintain the cloud solution functions optimally.

In most solutions, this process would be iterative, (ie during the delivery cycle, the project could look to repeat the Design-Development-Test-Deploy cycle). This enables a progressive launch of capability and functionality that focuses on achieve benefits early on, and betting stakeholder feedback at an early stage.