Agile transformation & requirement engineering

Your trustful partner for successful agile transformation

Contemporary highly competitive and constantly changing business environment requires an ability for quick adoption and implementation of new service, business or commercial models. This brings enterprises to a need of quick rollout of sustainable agile initiatives, which enable to support continuous change and shorter time-to-market ensuring customer satisfaction increase

AND Consulting supports customers in initial setting up, scaling and analyzing /assessment of agile transformation processes, planning on all levels of enterprise, governance of product portfolio and building of product roadmap, predicting value, which will be delivered, using AI-technics and methods, setting up of key metrics and reporting on them in form of dashboards or scorecards.

Our focus areas

Agile methodologies & transformation, Agile@Scale

Assessment and selection of best-fit agile models for your product development.
Creation of transformation roadmap and fit-gap analysis leveraging best practices
Facilitation of agile transformation, rolling out ceremonies, definition of artefacts, roles and complete organisational change management.
Design & implementation of end-to-end value chain centric process of product development
Setting up structures, workflows, benchmarking, stabilize and accelerate
Inspect & Adapt existing programs and product development teams
Scaling to large frameworks like SAFe, LeSS, or NEXUS. Establishing ARTs and PI cadencies elevating agile principles to all org levels along end-to-end process
Integration with Ops (DevOps, BizDevOps), TDD, BDD, DesignThinking, Lean models leveraging multiple models combining advantages of agility and stability

Agile Requirement engineering & backlog management

Complete end-to-end set up of the efficient demand management and requirement engineering processes including holistic approaches in requirements elicitation and validation.
Requirement elicitation and validation cross teams along the value stream
Establishing continuous exploration cycle
Ensure value-stream and customer centricity
Product backlog management incl. recurrent prioritization and continuous refinement and cross alignement
Portfolio management & governance. Holistic view on the product
Release management & Product roadmap

Stakeholders & team coaching

Coaching of cross-functional and development teams
Stakeholders / Product owners and business customer facing teams coaching
Change management and communication (release management, etc)
Implementation and supporting quick adoption of selected frameworks, practices, principles and values
Building around the value. Forming cross-functional teams ensuring rapid go-to-market of product
Escalation and impediments management
Foster a continuous learning and improvement mindset

Measuring progress & efficiency

Definition of key output, flow and outcome metrics
Measuring and visualizing process efficiency and scope
Reporting setup, creation and roll out of dashboards and reporting enabling action derivation
Creation of ad-hoc reporting (e.g. scope, waste, velocity, throughput, etc)
Tracking of metrics on all operational levels and planning horizons
Integration of forecasts into planning and product roadmap
Integration of insights into data-driven estimations, capacity planning and allocation

Tool selection, customizing & support

Requirements analysis and tool evaluation for each specific objective (operational, planning, mapping and reporting) in agile product development
Visualizing progress in product development (release-wise, products, etc)
Customizing and integration of tools into processes (jira, Confluence, mural, miro, etc)
Creation of actionable analytical reports and dashboards (jira, Microsoft PowerBI, SAP SAC, tableau, etc)
Continuous support / adjustments for the tools