LitheSpeed : Agile Product Development and Coaching

Agile Product Development & Coaching
Co-sourced or outsourced development with recognized experts
Contact us today to deliver better products faster.

Key Benefits:

Direct project support & coaching from Agile experts
Experience with emerging technologies (Ruby on Rails, Grails, AJAX, etc.)

Overview

It's hard to adopt something new from simply reading a book or taking a training course; the best way to learn is to work alongside experts. Also, projects today are under more pressure than ever to deliver fast, flashy results, something that's most easily achieved using Agile methodologies and emerging technologies such as Ruby on Rails and Grails. These truths have led us to design an offering which gives you access to Agile and emerging technology experts, not as disassociated external consultants, but as core contributing members of your project teams.

Offering Variants

We've developed a few basic variants that have proved successful in a variety of circumstances; of course, we can custom-fit a solution to your needs as well.

Outsourced Agile Development: You provide the problem, we provide a team of experts to solve it for you. This requires ready access to a business customer, and can be done on-site or off. We specialize in Web 2.0 development using Ruby on Rails and Grails, but we can utilize J2EE and .NET equally well.
Dedicated Coaching (1-3 projects): Dedicated Agile mentoring for your project teams, aspiring ScrumMasters and Product Owners. Includes assistance preparing for and facilitating all core meetings (Discovery Session, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Daily Standup, Retrospectives), part-time mentoring (10-20 hrs/week at first, decreasing over life of project) and on-call consulting. A dedicated Coach can typically handle 1-3 projects at once.
Agile Project Management & Coaching: Same services as Dedicated Coaching, plus acts as full-service ScrumMaster and fulfills any additional project management duties.
Agile Development & Coaching: Same services as Dedicated Coaching, plus acts as Lead Agile Developer within your core team, with a special focus on helping the team ramp up on Agile Engineering practices (test driven development, automated testing, automated builds, continuous integration, pair programming etc).
Discovery Session Facilitation: One week of consulting and facilitation services to custom-design and run a project kickoff Discovery Session, encompassing Agile and basic Lean process training, project context exploration, team formation and initial project Release and Sprint Planning.

Contact us today to discuss options that would best fit your needs.