What We Do
BUILD TEAMS. MODERNIZE. ORCHESTRATE.
1 | Build Teams
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Is Your Team Ready to Deliver Right Now?
At critical moments, it’s essential to ensure that your team is prepared to perform at the highest level.
For the past 20 years, we’ve specialized in building great teams that deliver results. Let us step into your world to assess the current state of your team. Our comprehensive evaluation will uncover strengths and areas for growth, ensuring you're ready to meet your goals.
Our Approach:
Team Assessment: We dive deep into your team’s capabilities, skill levels, and dynamics to understand where they are today.
Report: We provide a clear, actionable report of our findings.
Next Steps: We outline strategic next steps by identifying PIOs (Problems, Issues, and Opportunities) to elevate your team’s performance.
Let’s ensure your team is ready to deliver, right now.
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The PIO Matrix: Your Key to Unlocking Team Potential
After assessing your team, we compile all findings into a PIO Matrix—a powerful tool that categorizes key Problems, Issues, and Opportunities (PIOs). This matrix helps you and your leadership make data-driven decisions on what to prioritize and where to focus your efforts.
How it Works:
Problems: Identify the obstacles currently hindering team performance.
Issues: Highlight the recurring challenges that need resolution.
Opportunities: Uncover areas where your team can grow and improve.
Each PIO is carefully evaluated and weighted based on its relevance to your business objectives. The result? A Weighted PIO Matrix that guides you on what matters most for achieving success.
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From PIO Matrix to Macro Plan: A Roadmap for Lasting Improvement
Once we've identified key Problems, Issues, and Opportunities (PIOs) through our PIO Matrix, the next critical step is to develop a comprehensive Macro Plan. This plan outlines a full year of improvement actions designed to directly address the most important PIOs.
What is a Macro Plan?
A Macro Plan is a strategic blueprint that breaks down the next 12 months into clear, actionable steps. These steps are tracked, monitored, and completed to ensure real progress is made. Executing this plan will move the needle on your team’s performance and delivery processes, providing a clear timeline and budget.How Does it Work?
Each PIO is addressed with targeted actions designed to create meaningful improvements.
Progress is continuously tracked to ensure milestones are met.
The plan helps your team achieve sustainable growth and efficiency gains.
Is this LEAN Continuous Improvement (CI)?
Absolutely. The approach is rooted in LEAN CI principles, but we’ve honed it to meet the specific needs of businesses across various industries, including Aerospace/Defense, Discrete Manufacturing, and more.The Result: A stronger, more effective team and measurable improvements in your delivery process.
2 | Modernize
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Here’s a list of what we’ll need:
Access to Applications and Personnel: We’ll need access to your applications and team members to gather information, assess your current systems, and align on the future state.
Detailed Discussions: We’ll take a deep dive into what’s working, what isn’t, and where you want to go. If there’s a technical roadmap, we’ll review it as part of this process.
Kubernetes as the Target: Our focus will be on moving toward Kubernetes as the deployment platform. If your team isn’t fully prepared to manage a modern stack, we can provide training to get them ready.
Collaborative Build Phase: Your team can participate with us during the Build phase. We’ll provide training to bridge any knowledge gaps and ensure a smooth collaboration.
Deliverables:
High-level Design Documentation: A clear technical solution plan.
Labor Estimates: A detailed breakdown of time and costs for the entire project.
Expectations for Your Team: Specific roles or tasks that your team will be responsible for.
UI Wireframes: If needed, we can provide wireframes as an initial visual guide for user interfaces.
Prototype Tools: Early versions of tools or features to validate the technical approach.
Training Plan: A structured plan to upskill your team on new technologies and processes.
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We use open-source tools and purpose-built applications to thoroughly examine your existing systems. Our approach includes developing detailed design documentation that highlights any potential issues or gaps. In most cases, we leverage Konveyor/Tackle to assist with this process. We cover all the essential aspects, including:
Security and Access Controls
UI Design Standards
Data Structures
Future-Proofing your architecture
We offer flexibility in how we work—whether that’s remotely within your systems or by standing up external environments to support the build process. We're an Agile team and can easily adopt your processes and workflows as needed.
What can you expect from us:
Detailed Design Documentation that thoroughly examines your current systems and identifies areas for improvement.
Risk Assessments and Mitigation Plans to help you proactively address any potential issues.
Sprint Plan and Release Schedule to ensure clear timelines and expectations for development and delivery.
UI Prototypes as needed to visualize and align on the user experience.
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There are always challenges to moving an application to a modern stack. There are a variety of deployment platform for Kubernetes with unique issues. There’s a perfect solution: OpenShift, AKS, GKS, Own-hosted, Rancher, others…. We’re happy to work with your preferences or offer up ours. With your team, we will stage the apps, test to validate and then move to production. We’ll do a solid hand off to your team, keep us engaged as long as you like.
What can you expect:
Detailed Data Migration Plan
Full Cycle Testing
Deployment Planning and execution
Hand-Off
3 | Orchestrate
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Data Everywhere? Let Us Help You Make Sense of It.
In today’s world, data is everywhere, but managing it effectively can be a challenge. Let us help you take control by organizing a comprehensive inventory of your data sources. We’ll classify your data in a way that makes it easy to understand and leverage for strategic decision-making.
What’s Included in the Data Inventory?
Source Locations: Know exactly where your data is stored, from on-premise systems to cloud platforms.
Platforms: Identify the systems and tools housing your data.
Custodial Information: Understand who is responsible for each data source and how it’s managed.
Classification: Organize your data into clear categories for easier access and usability.
The result? A detailed, organized view of your data ecosystem, providing clarity and control for you and your leadership team.
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Data in the Real World: Turning Challenges into Opportunities
In an ideal world, data would be perfectly located, clean, and always available. But the reality is often different. The data you need to leverage may be locked inside tightly managed ERP systems with limited real-time access. Your existing data warehouse may already be at capacity, and extending it for predictive analytics is not in the plan.
That’s where we come in.
Our Solution: We work alongside your current data management team to implement “light-touch,” event-driven tools that perform ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes without overburdening your systems. By utilizing event-driven architectures, we can make your data accessible in near real-time, improving operational efficiency and unlocking its full potential.
Our Approach:
Open Source Tools: We prefer open-source solutions like Kafka, a core set of tools we frequently leverage to handle event-driven data streaming and processing.
Flexibility: We’re open to collaborating with your team and adapting to your existing strategy for managing event messaging and data flow.
Light-Touch Integration: Our solutions are designed to integrate smoothly with your systems, minimizing disruption while delivering real-time insights.
Let’s make your data work for you—without pushing your current infrastructure to its limits.
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From ETL to Data Science: Preparing Your Data for the Future
Successfully implementing an ETL process is just the beginning. Once your data is extracted, transformed, and loaded, it's ready to be consumed by multiple teams of data scientists. But for data science to thrive, storing your data events in suitable, scalable data stores is critical.
Our Preferred Solutions:
Open-Source Platforms: We prioritize open-source solutions like ArangoDB, which supports a modern approach to data storage that’s ready for advanced data science applications.
AI-Ready Data Stores: We’re open to understanding your current strategy for AI-ready data stores and aligning with your vision to ensure that your data infrastructure supports innovation.
Embracing Kubernetes and Open Data Solutions: We’re excited about open-source tools like Open Data Hub, running on containerized platforms such as OpenShift. These cutting-edge technologies enable seamless orchestration and management of data science workloads, ensuring that your data is not just stored but fully optimized for AI and machine learning applications.
Let’s prepare your data for the future, with scalable, flexible, and AI-ready storage solutions built on the best of open-source technology.
Ready to elevate your company?
Reach out and let us know how we can help!