Agile Explorations
Create greater organizational clarity and cross-functional alignment by exploring your organization’s current state and transformation goals.
Organizational Transformation
Embrace New Ways of Working
The time for change is now. To truly maximize the benefits of your technology initiatives, your organization must embrace continuous change and evolution. Start accelerating your value gains today and transform your tomorrow with better ways of working.
True transformation involves every level of an organization. With Excella’s extensive digital, culture, and business transformation experience, you will see accelerated results through greater team alignment across your organization. Learn how our approach to integrating new technology with streamlined processes and new ways of working will unleash the potential of your staff.
Experience the Power of Change
Our approach to transformation leverages our strong history of pioneering Agile principles and applying them to enable transformational change. Our experts understand that there is no one-size-fits-all formula to change and will tailor a transformation roadmap that builds on team-level and scaling frameworks that best fit your organization. Using frameworks that best fit your organization, Excella’s industry-recognized Agile coaches will help you create a system of continuous improvement and innovation, to reduce rework, improve time to value, and empower your people.
Make Change with our Transformative Solutions
Team Alignment Facilitation
Improve operational effectiveness and efficiency by connecting your organization’s strategy to your teams’ day-to-day work.
Tailored Roadmapping
Streamline your path to transformation by prioritizing improvements building on team-level frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP) and scaling frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale) that best fit your organization.
Agile Coaching, Training, and Empowerment
Upskill your teams with hands-on delivery support and real-time education to increase operational efficiency and adopt better ways of working.
Benefits to Our Approach
Strong Foundation for Agile Delivery and Scaling
We draw upon the Agile Scaling Manifesto to help you adopt a collaborative, Agile development approach, leaving your teams with the knowledge they need to scale successfully.
Best Fit Combination of Agile Frameworks
We introduce and facilitate new ways of working – from lean discovery methods to accelerated data analysis – from top to bottom at your organization to help you become more effective and efficient.
Process to Goal Alignment
We empower organizations to align their value streams to optimize cross-departmental flow and create synergy across the organization.
Lasting Systemic Change
We don’t believe that one size fits all. Our experts identify the underlying causes and interdependencies of your challenges and collaborate with your teams to build change that lasts.
Interdisciplinary Advantage
We go beyond Agile. Our solutions teams draw upon Excella’s cross-functional capabilities to support your transformation at every level – from deep technical expertise, such as DevSecOps and DataOps, to business-facing expertise, such as Product Management, Human Centered Design, LeanUX, Design Thinking, and more.
Proven Transformation Success
Modernizing the American Dream: How USCIS Dramatically Reduced Verification Case Processing Times
Achieving unprecedented levels of scalability
With Excella’s support, USCIS updated three of these mission-critical legacy systems. The modernized systems have dramatically decreased case processing times, improved customer service, and introduced a new, modern technology infrastructure. Their success demonstrates that leaner government IT processes can effectively respond to 21st century needs.
Improving Delivery and Customer Satisfaction with Agile and DevSecOps
Improved Customer Satisfaction through Refined Planning and Enhanced Agility
With Excella support, USAJOBS’s Agile teams successfully adopted automation throughout their DevSecOps development, delivery, and support processes to dramatically enhance the website’s performance. These improvements allowed the site to be named one of Forbes Magazines “10 Best Websites for your Career” in 2013 and USAJOBS ASCI jumped to an all-time high in 2014.
myUSCIS: Pioneering the Future of Government Services
Seamlessly Modernizing the Customer Experience
With Excella’s help, myUSCIS, the flagship U.S. citizenship application and suite of digital products and tools not only provides applicants and petitioners with a better user experience, but it also reduces administrative costs for the U.S. government. USCIS customers continue to receive value from an upgraded customer experience and, as the results show, are welcoming the digital move
How Silverline Communications Put Agile Marketing in Action
Value-Driven Communications and Marketing
With Excella’s help, the Silverline Communications team found the right Agile approach for them and incrementally transformed their work processes over four months, creating new policies and eliminating impediments that had long hindered them. As the team gained confidence, the team has found more ways to deliver and share their value with clients and clients have had more opportunities to gain insights into their communications and marketing activities. For Silverline, putting Agile marketing into action began with a transformative mindset shift, but maintaining and improving their agility never ends.
Related Resources
5 Keys to a Successful Agile Transformation
While aiming for a more nimble and responsive IT organization is a worthy goal, the road to an Agile transformation is often lined with potholes. So, how do you make sure your Agile transformation is sustained?
5 Ways to Completely Sabotage Your Agile Transformation
It’s never easy, but as long as you stay true to a few core values and principles, you can achieve transformative outcomes. We know that’s not always possible so we want to highlight the 5 things you should definitely do if you want to sabotage your Agile transformation.
Expanding Agile Across Your Business
Through an Agile lens, leaders across all industries and their organizations are discovering powerful new ways to evolve, deliver real value to their customers, and improve the daily work lives of the people who make it happen.
8 Questions to Explore Before Embarking on an Agile Transformation
Considering bringing Agile into your organization? Great! You’re about to start out on a challenging but rewarding journey, and if you stick with it, you’ll realize some of those highly-touted benefits like flexibility to adapt to market changes more quickly, better visibility and alignment between the business and IT, and higher team morale.
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Mathias Eifert
Practice Director, Organizational Transformation
Paul Boos
Principal Fellow, Organizational Transformation