Agile Enablement and Coaching

RADTAC has been responsible for some of the largest and most successful Agile enablement and transformation programmes in the world.

Uniquely amongst Agile specialists, RADTAC provides a full range of Agile enablement and coaching services in all of the leading Agile methods – eXtreme Programming, Scrum, Lean Software Development, DSDM Atern and the Agile Unified process, etc. This enables us to provide the appropriate service package to address the specifics of each individual client situation.

RADTAC is also the only Agile specialist to provide services beyond the normal Agile sphere into those areas of traditional and other contemporary best-practice methods which must often be addressed for a successful, sustainable transformation to Agile. These include PRINCE2 and similar project management approaches and the full RUP systems development method.

The maturity of our PragmaticAgile™ Transformation Approach builds-on our extensive experience of organisational change programmes. Using this approach we were responsible at British Airways for the World’s first enterprise-wide adoption of Agile for all projects.

The complete PragmaticAgile™ service consists of five parallel strands which can be utilised individually or collectively according to client needs.

  • Transition Management: Vision, objectives, strategy, stakeholders, benefits, measures, readiness assessment etc.
  • Guidance and Standards Routemap: Agile processes, roles, responsibilities, deliverables, templates
  • Project Support: pilot and follow-on projects, creating internal Champions, coaching and seeding projects with RADTAC experts
  • Training and Education: All stakeholders, modular courses, train the trainer
  • Agile Capability Building: Based upon client needs and may include:

    • Agile organisation structures
    • Agile project pipeline and portfolio
    • Agile off-shore and distributed projects
    • Agile and legacy systems
    • Agile and external suppliers / customers
    • Agile programme management
    • Agile governance
    • Agile and the boardroom
    • Agile and infrastructure projects
    • Agile and very large projects/programmes
    • Agile business analysis
    • Agile architecture
    • Agile and independent testing
    • Agile culture
    • Agile auditing
    • Agile tooling and environments
    • Agile HR and performance management
    • Combining Agile and Waterfall
    • Agile with PRINCE2 / PMI / APM

In Butler Group’s opinion, RADTAC should be considered as a mentor for medium-to-large organisations that seek to adopt Agile practices and who lack their own in-house expertise, whether this be in Agile methods or the Organisational Transformation approaches required for its successful adoption and sustained use.

Butler Group Technology Audit. Reference Code: TA001338ADT Publication Date: September 2007 Author: Michael Azoff