Project Management
Capabilities
Delivering structure and results
Driving Success
Driving Success
Great software cannot be produced without planning, clarity, and a support team that keeps distractions and obstacles at bay. Our project management staff offers ownership, accountability, and trustworthiness: core values that are often lost in the commoditization of software development services.
Project Management
Project Management
Our Project Managers (PM) are responsible for outlining the scope of work for the project, the timeline, and the budget. The PM will run the day-to-day project and convene with stakeholders, the client, and the development team. A key function served by the PM is identifying and mitigating risks that could delay or derail the project. This elevated role provides leadership to the software development team, provides organizational structure, and drives proactive and results-driven communication. If you have a complex software product, are juggling multiple projects, and/or cannot allocate the time and subject matter expertise that the development team will need from you to hit the project roadmap milestones, then a Project Manager may be the key player you need to deliver the anticipated results with confidence.
Business Analysis
Business Analysis
Projects that lack a Business Analyst (BA) often find that the gaps in knowledge and expectations between stakeholders and developers lead to delays in production, a focus on the wrong priorities, edge case omissions, and incomplete features. Our BAs bridge the gap between stakeholders, elicit details, identify assumptions and pitfalls, and ensure decisions are made before the team progresses. All of this brings higher levels of engagement, better and more consistent team velocity, and a greatly reduced risk of failure or missed milestones. In the last couple of years, our clients have been adding BAs from our team to all of their larger projects, recognizing that maximizing the contribution of the software development resources while considering their own time constraints requires someone on the team to drive the requirements and progress of the team forward.
Scrum Management
Scrum Management
While the duties of the Scrum Master may be absorbed by other roles on some projects, like a Project Manager, having a dedicated Scrum Master (at least part-time) on a team is a good choice for projects that are complex, have a high degree of uncertainty, or require a lot of collaboration. We see the utilization of this dedicated role most often with our financial clients and those with very large projects and distributed teams.
