To compete in your market requires you to deliver better products faster, with lower cost.  Time-to-market has become more than a cliché – it has become a necessity.  Agile methods have focused on improving the Agility of teams, but to win in today’s world require Enterprise Agility – the ability to take concepts to consumption without delay and in a sustainable manner.

The diagram above represents the flow of concepts at the customer, through product portfolio management (including the defnition of the projects to work on), the development team and back to the customers for consumption of the delivered software.  To learn more about where to start in this cycle, read Becoming an Agile Enterprise from our upcoming book Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility.

Necessary for success:

• Alignment of business vision
• Focused management
• High quality technical practices

One size does not fit all.  A blend of best practices and guidance is required to address the different issues these areas have.  Net Objectives provides a blend of consulting and training services that includes Lean, Agile and state of the art engineering practices.

The enterprise is comprised of:

• Product Management
• Product Portfolio
• Customer Base
• Teams

Attention to just one or a portion of these components leads to sub-optimization – and sub-optimal results. Lean-Thinking has proven to be an enabler of improving quality, decreasing time to market while lowering cost.  Lean takes an Enterprise view and has been proven to be a great context for the Agile thinking that has vastly improved team productivity. Net Objectives can help you bring these skills to bear to improve the identification, implementation and future enhancement of your software development efforts.  We empower enterprises to deliver great products and services with speed, quality and maximized profit.

If you'd like more information on why starting with a focus on just your development team often leads to little overall improvement, read/listen to our podcast Getting to the Benefits.

If you are really serious about transitioning to Business Agility, I invite you to join our webinar series on Business Driven Software Development. If you are making a transition to agile methods and have 100 or more people reporting to you, please see how to get a free copy of our book Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility .