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We help industry leaders drive organization alignment and enterprise agility, modernize product development and adopt AI and enterprise tooling to support their desired business outcomes..

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Manufacturing

Product Development Transformation:

Agile Rising successfully transitioned this large 400-person hardware-software product development group away from entrenched waterfall management processes. The core challenge was overcoming large release cycles that historically spanned two to three or more years, to minimize plant downtime.

Action:
  • Introduced and adopted Lean-Agile practices and principles across the entire engineering division.
  • Executed cultural change management for the $\approx 400$-person team.
Result:
  • The organization was enabled to pivot toward shorter iterations.
  • Continuous value flow was established, leading to continuously releasable products.

Medical Device Manufacturer

Lean-Agile Transformation for Value Delivery

Significant waste faced by this premier manufacturer included Verification and Validation (V&V) taking twice as long as development, overly complex requirements documentation, and teams misaligned to value streams.

Action:
  • Implemented Lean-Agile practices, shifting delivery from large batches to iterative, incremental delivery.
  • Established new metrics focused on outcomes over output.
Impact:
  • The entire delivery process, including V&V, was streamlined through process modernization.
  • Value delivery and delivery predictability materially improved across all product lines.
  • Forecasting accuracy improved due to reliable outcome-based metrics.

Aerospace and Defense

ERP & PLM Systems Optimization

Optimization efforts focused on helping a Siemens Team Center Configuration Program group get the desired value from Lean-Agile Practices and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) implementation within a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) group. The initial underperformance was due to weak governance and poor control over active work.

Action:
  • Executed a full SAFe assessment and relaunched the program
  • Formalized key roles, such as the Business Owner, to ensure accountability.
Key Achievement:
  • Program teams transitioned from leaving 70% of quarterly planned work unfinished to exceeding delivery expectations and pulling in additional unplanned work  Rigorous Work in Process (WIP) control was established.
  • The Agile Release Train (ART) now consistently meets or exceeds its Program Increment (PI) objectives.

Government

Mission Success in Aerospace

Since 2020, critical programs within a major US federal space agency have been guided through a Digital Transformation, focusing on SAFe, Technology Business Management (TBM), and Value Stream Management.

Action:
  • Provided strategic consulting, coaching, and training to teams across multiple programs.
  • Focused on adopting enterprise-wide Lean-Agile practices.
Key Achievement:
  • Overall delivery time was reduced from over 12 months to under 1 month.
  • A cybersecurity team was helped to achieve a 395% productivity increase in vulnerability remediation.
  • Optimized organizational flow and delivered measurable results.

Higher Education

Enterprise Agile Planning and Portfolio Management

Agile Rising partnered with Apptio/IBM to implement a comprehensive Enterprise Agile Planning solution for this major University.

Action:
  • Coaching and change management consulting helped the University use the new Agile Planning solution to optimize portfolio management and delivery practices to  practices
  • Role and Administrator training prepared the University to continue to evolve the Enterprise Agile solution 
Results:
  • Tooling was consolidated, creating a single source of truth.
  • Portfolios were aligned directly to strategic business objectives.
  • Enterprise-wide alignment was created, improving strategic portfolio management.

Financial Services

Tailored Agile Implementation

A premium finance organization transitioned to a tailored Agile implementation leveraging practices from the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to foster alignment.

Action:
  • The engagement began with a full current state/future state assessment
  • Created a roadmap to guide implementation, training, and coaching activities.
  • Adopted Big Room planning to minimize unplanned work.
Immediate Benefit:
  • Improved alignment and shared understanding of priorities across the organization.
  • Delivery predictability increased by establishing disciplined and consistent Agile practices.
  • Product Managers and Product Owners established longer-term roadmaps to guide product vision and priorities.

Software

Operating Model Transformation

Agile Rising partnered with this leading Technology Spend and Value Management software provider (IBM Apptio) to help the IT organization transition to Lean-Agile ways of working using SAFe enabled by their internal Strategic Portfolio Management tool, Targetprocess.

Action:
  • Followed an assessment-led approach that resulted in a tailored training and coaching solution.
  • Focused on aligning teams around value and removing functional silos.
Measurable Outcomes:
  • Excess Work in Process (WIP) was eliminated.
  • Improved alignment and transparency across the enterprise.
  • Broader awareness and alignment were achieved around business objectives and desired outcomes.

Healthcare

Organizing around Value Streams

The operating model for the IT delivery organization of a large Healthcare Information Technology Company was realigned with a focus on value flow.

Action:
  • Led the major healthcare organization through a Value Stream Identification and analysis across six distinct product areas.
  • Aligned product delivery groups into teams of teams in support of the value streams
  • Provided SAFe training to establish foundational context for teams and leaders.
Results:
  • Teams and stakeholders were better aligned into Agile Release Trains and Solution Trains.
  • Operating model alignment minimized cross-group dependencies and improved value flow.
  • Helped the organization develop internal champions through pairing and co-facilitating multiple ART launches and PI Planning events.