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Agile Transformation & Software Craftsmanship
Agile Transformation and Software Craftsmanship
Being an “agile” business doesn’t mean using certain tools or off-the-shelf programs. Agile is an organizational behavior learned, executed and refined over time.
Yet adopting a truly agile culture can be tough. Transformation efforts often expose inefficiencies between application and operations teams, misalignment among delivery organizations and a lack of executive buy-in.
WWT Application Services can help. We offer a range of agile transformation and software craftsmanship services to simplify and accelerate the journey. We partner with your leaders and teams to design and execute an agile plan that facilitates transformation for both your organizational systems and teams.
Organizational system transformation focuses on:
- Objectively assessing and addressing your current state of agile maturity and adoption
- Accelerating the realization of business goals through streamlined software delivery
- Improving dev team quality and velocity with applied learning from coaches and technical mentors
- Enhancing delivery efficiency by upskilling developers on leading-edge software development practices
Team transformation focuses on upskilling and mentoring teams with the technical skills and tools needed to deliver game-changing outcomes by:
- Improving dev team quality and velocity with applied learning from coaches and technical mentors
- Enhancing delivery efficiency by upskilling developers on leading-edge software development practices
Agile Transformation Success Story
We understand that what makes agile succeed or fail is unique to each organization. This is why we have created a disciplined and flexible approach that enables us to customize our clients’ transformation program to realize their goals based on their unique needs and context.
In this video, the IT leadership of Alaska USA Federal Credit Union shares the positive business impact WWT’s Agile Transformation approach has on their organization.
Spoiler alert: It enabled them to consistently deliver on their commitments and led to their highest score ever on their internal quality survey. Please review How to Facilitate an Agile Transformation to understand our approach and how we partner with clients to facilitate their Agile transformation.
WWT’s approach encompasses the core elements of any successful agile transformation: executive alignment, system changes, employee empowerment, co-creation, change facilitation, behavior and mindset change, agile knowledge, and technical craftsmanship. Because every business is unique — with their own starting points, paths and desired end states — we customize each transformation by:
- Assessing: Understanding your organization’s current maturity, goals and motivations.
- Designing: Building upon your strengths to determine your ideal path.
- Developing: Building out your organization’s capabilities, knowledge and craftsmanship.
- Operationalizing: Facilitating the incremental implementation of sustainable changes in culture, processes and technology.
- Adjusting: Redirecting efforts based on the outcomes of each change cycle.
Regardless of the path you choose, our experts will help you form an agile ecosystem within your organization that optimizes how teams interact to deliver working software.
Work with our Application Services experts to achieve sustainable agile transformation and software craftsmanship through:
- Transformation: Working in an agile way will become the new norm for developers, as your new agility is demonstrated in the new and refactored code.
- Change: Fully implement sustainable changes with each iteration.
- Education: Formal and informal, leading-edge approaches that foster applied learning.
- Hands-on approach: Work hand-in-hand with coaches and technical mentors to facilitate the transformation.
Our Work
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