Accelerated Delivery Begins with Agile Transformation Services

We Maximize Business Value and Enterprise Agility with Our Agile Practice and Transformation Framework

The Business Challenges of Agile Adoption

The cultural implications of agile transformation cannot and should not be underestimated or overlooked by any enterprise that is planning to go the agile way. As agile transformation essentially involves overturning of the traditional processes, the resistance from the people is expected.

The top challenges that enterprises face while adopting and scaling Agile practices are:

  • Not able to answer ‘why agile’
  • Lack of wider ‘buy-in’ – management sees Agile as a silver bullet
  • Team is not ready/resistant to change – failed Agile Implementations
  • Lack of collaboration within teams and with customers
  • Enterprise culture is still based on Waterfall
  • Attempting to go agile but with legacy command and control management

Addressed By Cigniti’s Depth and Breadth of Offerings

Our experts provide consulting services to help you achieve enterprise agility and extend agile benefits from projects to business lines.

Assess

Readiness and Maturity Assessment

Enable

Coaching and
training

Transform

Enterprise Agile
Transformation

Scale

Enterprise Agility
through DevOps

Assess: Readiness and Maturity Assessment

Cigniti’s Agile Maturity Assessment Tool is a powerful agile assessment and growth tool designed for enterprises that are adopting and scaling agile and want visibility into the performance and health of their teams. The tool comprehensively helps to assess the maturity and capability of a team and the enterprise agile practices against the 10 Agile Principles and 5 maturity levels.
No Tangible Benefits
Ad-hoc Agile
Inconsistent and Unrepeatable practices. Success is dependent on individual. Basic Agile and Scrum Processes
Team level agility
Doing Agile
Roles, Events and Artifacts exist. Agile Adoption just started. Non-sync of Test & Development cadence.
Repeatable outcomes
Being Agile
Well defined repeatable processes / outcomes. Team practicing Agile nMaking consistent delivery sprint on sprint. Some Automation exists.
Platform Level Agility
Optimize Agile
Cross team dependencies are self-managed. Teams are self-managed. Release predictability is highest. High focus on Engineering maturity.
Business Agility
Scale Agile
Teams are able to manage product roadmaps on their own. Team has highest autonomy and motivation to deliver high quality releases.

Ad-hoc Agile

Inconsistent and Unrepeatable practices. Success is dependent on individual. Basic Agile and Scrum Processes.

No Tangible Benefits

Maturity stage

Doing Agile

Roles, Events and Artifacts exist. Agile Adoption just started. Non-sync of Test & Development cadence.

Team Level Agility

Maturity stage

Being Agile

Well defined repeatable processes / outcomes. Team practicing Agile nMaking consistent delivery sprint on sprint. Some Automation exists.

Program Level Agility

Maturity stage

Optimize Agile

Cross team dependencies are self-managed. Teams are self-managed. Release predictability is highest. High focus on Engineering maturity.

Platform Level Agility

Maturity stage

Scale Agile

Teams are able to manage product roadmaps on their own. Team has highest autonomy and motivation to deliver high quality releases.

Business Agility

Maturity stage

Level 1

Ad-hoc Agile

Inconsistent and Unrepeatable practices. Success is dependent on individual. Basic Agile and Scrum Processes.

No Tangible Benefits

Level 2

Doing Agile

Roles, Events and Artifacts exist. Agile Adoption just started. Non-sync of Test & Development cadence.

Team Level Agility

Level 3

Being Agile

Well defined repeatable processes / outcomes. Team practicing Agile in true spirit. Making consistent delivery sprint on sprint. Some Automation exists.

Program Level Agility

Level 4

Optimize Agile

Cross team dependencies are self-managed. Teams are self-managed. Release predictability is highest. High focus on Engineering maturity.

Platform Level Agility

Level 5

Scale Agile

Teams are able to manage product roadmaps on their own. Team has highest autonomy and motivation to deliver high quality releases.

Business Agility

10 Agile Principles

Agile Culture and
Mindset
Team
Collaboration
Backlog
Management
Planning
Agile
Processes
Engineering
Maturity
Automation
Focus
Frequency delivery and Releases
Continuous
Improvement
Inspect and
Adapt

Enable: Coaching and Training

Once the assessment is over, our experts enable enterprise further by providing leadership training and more as below.

Business Leadership Training 

  • Portfolio management
  • Business case development
  • Governance, and metrics — creating an enterprise that is more accountable, market responsive and productive

Process Training

  • Agile, Scrum, Lean and Kanban
  • Agile Project Management and Governance
  • Estimation Technique: Planning Poker
  • SAFe Implementation Workshop
  • MVP and Release planning
  • Back Log Preparation

Engineering

  • Continuous Integration/Delivery
  • Agile Project Management Tools
  • Test Driven Development
  • Overcoming Technical Debt
  • DevOps for Enterprise Agility

Transform: Enterprise Agile Transformation

Once your enterprise is armed with the knowledge required to accelerate your Agile transformation journey, our experts help you take the next steps to accelerate your success journey.

Enterprise Agile Transformation Steps

Assess the current product engineering processes and the technology and resource utilization in use by customer, and identify gaps
Tailor-made training for the executive and engineering team on the identified gaps

Tailor-made coaching and guided execution

Ongoing support and independent execution
Measure Agile ROI and roll out Agile Practices across enterprise

Scale: Enterprise Agility Through DevOps

Agility is the state of being Agile with a DevOps mindset. Here’s a snapshot of our Advisory and Consultative Approach to DevOps.

Value Assessment

  • Review the value Cigniti can bring to your Agile and DevOps journey.
  • Discuss to uncover the capabilities and potential path to value for your enterprise.

Value Discovery

  • Discover your current IT and business landscape, associated problem statements and identify tangible opportunities for value creation through Agile and DevOps practices in a workshop.

Plan and Measure

  • Ranked recommendations based on cost, complexity and benefit
  • Define the tool and process selection
  • Identify and measure the changes to the current infrastructure
  • Estimate timelines

Prioritize

  • Cigniti helps spot the biggest opportunities ahead and to clearly articulate problems
  • We then help you solve them in a rapid, iterative, innovative and differentiated manner using Design Thinking and our maturity models

Adopt

  • DevOps Transformation
  • Continuous Integration – Agile Cloud Development, Automation (Build, Test, Infra, Software Supply Chain), Code Analysis Engineering
  • Continuous delivery – Zero-Touch / Zero-Downtime, Deployment Traceability, Audit & Compliance Automation, Release Automation, Delivery Health Analytics)
  • Continuous Operations

Cigniti’s Key Agile Transformation Enablers and Differentiators

Agile DevOps Enterprise Transformation Framework helps clients adopt Agile and DevOps practices & move to higher maturity level.
Agile Transformation process accelerators with customized reusable process artefacts including Procedures, Guidelines & Best Practices, Checklists, and Templates.
End-to-end Agile governance framework with real time dashboards & role-based KPIs across PMO, Build, QA, and Release functions.

We co-partner and take ownership of agile transformation by maximizing business value and enterprise agility for our customer.

  • End-to-end Offering
  • MVP Development

  • Agile Toolkit with Templates, Best Practices etc.
  • Maturity Assessment

  • Business Leadership and Role Based Workshop/Trainings
  • Process + Technical

  • Consulting and Coaching focusing on Agile mindset

  • Agile + DevOps

Why Enterprises Choose Cigniti's Agile Transformation Services

100+

Consultants Certified on CSM, CSP, PMI, and SAFe Agilist

45+

Large
Scale Agile
Projects

20+

Years of Agile Transformation Expertise across Scrum, TDD, ATDD and SAFe

400+

Pre-built
Agile Process
Accelerators

20+

Niche Engagements with Continuous Automation aligned with DevOps

BlueSwanTM Praxia and Verita – IP Powered Agile Transformation

Cigniti’s standard metrics for Agile Transformation and their year-on-year improvements

Quality

Build/Release Frequency

2x times

4x times

10x times

Y1

Y2

Y3

Cost of Quality

<85%

<60%

<25%

Y1

Y2

Y3

Time to Market

2x times

4x times

10x times

Y1

Y2

Y3

Agile Adoptability

2/5
3.5/5
4/5

Y1

Y2

Y3

Testing Maturity

Requirements Traceability & Stability

90%

100%

100%

Y1

Y2

Y3

Regression Effectiveness

3/5
4.5/5
4/5

Y1

Y2

Y3

Non-Functional Coverage

85%

90%

100%

Y1

Y2

Y3

Iterative Builds Frequency

3/5
3.5/5
4/5

Y1

Y2

Y3

Engineering Maturity

CI/CD Efficiency

3/5
3.5/5
4/5

Y1

Y2

Y3

Cost of Quality

2.5/5
3.5/5
4/5

Y1

Y2

Y3

In-sprint Test Coverage

65%

90%

100%

Y1

Y2

Y3

Code Drops Deployment Frequency

2x times

5x times

8x times

Y1

Y2

Y3

Software Reliability

Test Data Reliability

75%

100%

100%

Y1

Y2

Y3

Test Environment Reliability

75%

100%

100%

Y1

Y2

Y3

MTTR

2x times

5x times

8x times

Y1

Y2

Y3

Failover Responsiveness & Reliability

2x times

4x times

10x times

Y1

Y2

Y3

Our Key Clients

Agile Maturity Model: Measure and Improve Agility

A Shift from Project Centric to Product Centric Operating Model

Centric to Product

The Right People, Processes, and Tools for Agile Transformation

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