Mustard

📜 Background

Mustard Systems is a statistical consultancy company specialising in the modelling of sporting events. As the company was scaling it became apparent that they needed an agile delivery framework in place. The company had 4 engineering teams at the time, they were struggling to deliver features incrementally and frequently to their users. The key remit was to define, design and implement an end-to-end software delivery method to consistently deliver value to their users.

📝 Description

I was contracted to analyse their existing delivery process, run a delivery audit highlight their major issues that needed to be fixed to enable the successful delivery of their projects. Created an agile end-to-end software delivery process to accelerate development across the business and remove major impediments. Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, transparency, accountability, tracking, technical debt reduction, self-management and empowerment.

🚚 Outcome

Reduced time to ship by approximately 30%.

Velocity improvement of more than 100%.

Focus shifted to outcome driven MVP delivery.

Autonomous teams.

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🤯 Challenges

Frontend and backend teams working independently.

Releasing features taking too long and blocked by dependencies.

Delivery teams were removed from the problem.

Lack of visibility of what will be delivered and when.

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