Our client needed our team to provide 8 ready-made development teams, 64 fully vetted and qualified people, within 4 weeks who could work within their “Hybrid Agile” framework and hit the ground running to be “effective from day 1”.
The teams would comprise of “SCRUM Master” certified PMs (servant leaders who could manage the finances, RAIDS and MI as well as support the client stakeholders and product owners), UI Developers to build the front end, Integration Developers and API who could work with the client’s API tools and help to resolve the challenge of integrating with legacy systems.
We were also asked to support our client with the shaping of the project, with our account and Programme Services team supporting our client’s stakeholders and leadership team in the defining of the 10-week sprints, 5 in total, over a 12-month period. Providing regular MI and status updates to show progression against the plan and offer advice, guidance and support to help factor lessons learned into the sprints and improve the customer journey.
Our client didn’t just want a straight resourcing option, and so, in this case, the service was provided under a fixed deliverable, Statement of Work, arrangement.
The first challenge was to qualify and onboard 64 people who could support the programme as required. We took the accountability for the quality of the service and removed the headache of identifying, interviewing and selecting candidates from our client. This was done through our own skills database, technical competency, open day events and individual interviews.
Once selected, our teams were put on-site within the agreed 4-week time-frame, and in some cases sooner. Using our automated planning and reporting tools we were able to support the client’s strategy. We provided customised reports and MI as well as regular retrospectives to improve each sprint and ultimately drive success into the project.
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