Cake Agile Mentoring Services
“We are not consultants!” - We are a team of talented & passionate individuals who use agile in our business and projects. It transformed our company and made it what it is today – we can do the same for you – it’s that simple!
We all have our own views on the agile project delivery method and most who have already adopted, or tried it will have their own views on what is the right way to do it. Our approach is different – we recognise that all organisations are different and what works for one might not necessarily work for another – we found this out the hard way when we adopted agile over 6 years ago!
As we are a team of both business and technical experts we engage with all areas of the business before we give you any recommendations or agree upon a plan - we insist on this! Once we have a good understanding of what your needs are we then propose the most effective way in which to inject agile into your business – this will be a bespoke plan tailored to your needs.
It’s a totally flexible solution - remember that we are technical experts we can become involved at a developer level and instill ourselves into your teams and mentor on every level – we are not white board theorist consultants!
Teams of all sizes can benefit from a switch to agile, do not believe anyone who says agile is only for small projects, this is absolutely not the case.
The text below describes at a very high level what agile is and how we can help you.
If you want more detail please read the white papers, case studies and guidelines we have written on the subject (linked below) or contact us for a chat.
Being agile in software
Agile project management methodologies set out to minimise waste. By ‘waste’ here we mean unnecessary work. Agile makes no distinction between the types of work: requirements, specifications, code; it is all the same to agile. This is certainly appealing: as clients, you get exactly what you pay for; as developers, we do not spend time and effort writing code that you do not want.
To allow you to do this, you need a skilled product owner on the business side and excellent software team on the technical side. At Cake Solutions, we offer services in both areas; and more importantly, our skills cover the business as well as technical aspects of agile project delivery, in one person! Our star advisers will work with your teams and introduce a better and stable methodology that delivers results very quickly and puts the business back in the control of the software!
The business slice
Our product owner mentoring service brings our experienced advisers to your business. We will give you an honest report of your software development position; we will listen to your business aims and help you become much more efficient in managing the software team. At the same time, we will work with your technical team and lead them though the change.
The technical slice
We are technical experts; we have written several technical books, we speak at conferences in the UK and abroad. We can help your technical teams with the technical problems so that they can be as efficient as possible. Our star architects and technical leads can smooth out the rough edges of software development so that your teams can focus on their work.
Our motivation
The main reason why we offer these services is because we are software engineers. We know that others like us enjoy creating software and take pride in their code. Now, when the business tells the developer that a feature is wrong (because it does not work as the business expected it to work), it is difficult for the developer to be rational about it. It feels as if the business is saying, “it’s all broken; look at you, you can’t even write good code.” It is incredibly frustrating and yes, it is personal.That’s why we will do our best to help you improve your software development processes. You will see incredible benefit to your organisation: you will get software that works as you expect in the time frame you expect; your developers will love coming in to work.
Talk to us
We are confident that Cake can improve your software delivery processes by working very closely with the business and within your development teams mentoring them through the change until they are able to stand alone.
Get started by reading our whitepapers and, if you like what you read, contact us. Together, we can create excellent software.
Cake runs periodic Agile events where we impart our agile experiences and knowledge to audiences all over the country. If you are interested in talking to us about attending the next event or just want a chat;
Call 0845 617 1200 or send an email to enquiries@cakesolutions.net
