Case Studies

Deliverable: An online B2B system with a new, complex Order Fulfilment sub-system for Contracts and Billing.

A specialised area of expertise requiring a large amount of complex business logic to be implemented.

The project:

1. Sized by the incumbent tech leadership as, approximately, a 6 to 9 month project to get it into production;

2. with two conventional cross-functional delivery teams (approx. 20 people in total);

3. using a conventional agile approach. 

4. There had been previous unsuccessful prior attempts.
   
   
   
   

Outcome:
Using our methodology and a multi-disciplinary approach...

1. The project was completed and shipped into production in just over 8 weeks;

2. with fewer people;

3. who were also less experienced

4. whilst achieving company standards for security and exceeding the company standards for quality.

Deliverable: Online B2C Publishing system.

A modernisation of legacy systems which were difficult and slow to work on.

The project:

1. Started with five conventional teams (with a standard yet complex change authorisation board) and pseudo-embedded QAs.

2. Started with conventional waterfall project management (dressed up as scrum) that we moved to an effective agile development approach over the course of the project.

3. Very slow (several weeks to months) to get features from an idea, into production.

4. High change failure rate in production
   
   
   
   

Outcome:
Using our methodology and a multi-disciplinary approach...

1. Reduced 'feature delivery into production' from several weeks to circa 50 minutes.

2. Enabled more than £1 million in savings by migrating from old infrastructure whilst also bringing development in-house.

3. Reduced maintenance costs and the cost of getting new features to production.

4. Substantially reduced number of failures in production.

5. Team size significantly reduced (>25%) whilst productivity increased (as measured by increase of value released to customers).