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Establishing and managing an Agile Centre of Excellence
Initial situation
The client intends to establish an Agile Centre of Excellence to support its internal business units with their improvement projects.
Tasks
- Select and define suitable procedures to make your transformation a success
- Develop and implement customer-specific training in transformation (e.g. Scrum, SAFe, Lean, etc..)
- Selective project support or coaching for teams and individuals
- Workshop moderation
- Support community formation
Customer benefits
- Successful transformations of business units
- Quality assurance of training concepts for new forms of work, practices and models
- Agile organisational units
- Better cooperation between departments and IT
Industry: Automotive, corporate group
Reshaping staff recruitment processes
Initial situation
The existing staff recruitment process had grown over the years, but was not living up to the demands posed by the prevailing lack of trained staff. The process was too protracted and was limited to German nationals.
Tasks
- Redefine (slim down) the process with a focus on speed without loss of quality
- Define SLAs within the process using KPIs to monitor for adherence
- Expand staff recruitment to countries outside the EU
- Establish new standards for job postings
- Introduce diversity
- Reshape the applicant interview schedule
- Introduce relocation services
Customer benefits
- Doubling of qualified applications per year
- Significant reduction in the number of applicants who eventually opted for another employer.
- Improvement in service quality (other cultures have other problem solving methods)
- Improvement of economic efficiency
Industry: IT
Agility check
Initial situation
The client aims to determine the level of agility that its development teams and their product owners have achieved to date.
Tasks
- Structured interviews (individual and team interviews)
- Observe team events, analyse the product backlog, scrum understanding, quality user stories, stakeholder management, etc.
- Support the release train engineer
- Culture check
Customer benefits
- An objective external assessment enables the first steps towards improvement
Industry: Sustainability, SMEs
Optimise the Scrum methodology
Initial situation
The client intends to continue the on-going transformation of its organisation towards greater business agility and to improve its new scrum-based approach.
Tasks
- Coaching for managers
- Assess the software development teams
- Support and train the future scrum masters and agile coaches
Customer benefits
- The management gains a greater understanding of business agility
- The development teams optimise their scrum workflow
- Introducing new roles improves the collaboration within in the organisation
Industry: Healthcare, SMEs
Organisational transformation with SAFe®
Initial situation
The client intends to implement an organisational structure focused on the value stream by means of SAFe®.
Tasks
- Consulting and advice on how to implement the SAFe® framework
- Coach the scrum masters
- Support the release train engineer
Customer benefits
- The product development is fully focused on the customer
- The organisation becomes more adaptable, flexible and innovative
- Activities that do not contribute to value creation are eliminated
Industry: Automotive, corporate group
Reshaping and optimising cooperation within a multicultural team
Initial situation
The management team was experienced in leading German teams. However, when the proportion of non-German employees passed the 20% mark, it became necessary to reorganise cooperation between German and non-German specialist staff. In addition, the management team had to be trained in interacting with non-German specialists.
Tasks
- Derive goals from the German Diversity Charter
- Develop a concept for creating diversity
- Provide multicultural training for employees and managers
- Improve cooperation within multicultural teams
- Develop and implement a mentoring concept
- Solve conflicts
- Work out a concept for mitigating differences in language proficiency
Customer benefits
- Significant improvement in customer focus
- Improvement in service quality (other cultures have other problem solving methods)
- Faster integration of non-German employees and resulting increase in productivity
Industry: IT