Leadership in Software Development

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Leadership and motivation, purpose and direction, communication, organisational design, performance management, recruitment and succession planning, Agile transformation, continuous delivery, ISO9001 quality management, portfolio governance, project management, risk and issue management, delivery planning, business analysis, user story and backlog management, usability design, architecture, coding standards, version control, release management, quality assurance, application security and data protection, resource planning, budgetary management, stakeholder engagement, supplier management, ITIL service management, customer support.

Highly effective software is the product of a motivated and high performing team.

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Delivery Management

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Business analysis, portfolio definition and high level planning, stakeholder engagement, benefits and target identification, control measures, decision points, board level engagement, communication, governance, quality standards and processes, risk and issue management, resource management and onboarding, supplier engagement, financial planning and budget management, project definition and inception, release planning, team motivation, support for product owners and others that are new to working in an Agile environment.

We advocate the use of Agile methods and respect that where a significant investment is being made an organisation will want greater levels of control and assurance than these low level methodologies are designed to provide out of the box. Glue can provide the same level of effective pragmatism at programme level that you want your teams to apply in their projects using Agile methods.

Glue endorses the Scaled Agile Framework.

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Technology Strategy and Solutions Architecture

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Business plan integration, benefits analysis, technical vision, organisational capability assessment, strategy and roadmap definition, technology rationalisation and cost benefits, platform and service design, cross-business engagement and stakeholder buy-in, performance indicators and benefits realisation, application development and sourcing strategies, product evaluation, security design, enterprise integration, business process modelling and business intelligence, hosting strategies, financial forecasting, programme definition, open standards, avoidance of lock-in, continued business alignment to maximise ROI.

We believe the best architectural strategies expect that an organisation's needs change over time.

Glue recommends Microservices architecture.

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Agile Coaching

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Board level engagement, process and technical gap analysis, transformation definition and planning, cross-team stakeholder engagement, Agile values and principles, Agile roles and responsibilities, TDD/BDD and QA strategy, tool support, coaching and mentoring for teams and product owners, integration with PMO and governance procedures.

The use of Agile methods will bind your multi-talented pool of people together into teams driven by mutual responsibility and common purpose.

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Usability Design

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Story boards, content strategy and navigational design, prototyping and design workshops, human behaviour and effective content layout, internationalisation, fonts and colour palettes, formative and summative evaluation, responsiveness, performance, W3C accessibility standards, plain english, web analytics, service feedback, customer involvement.

Usability design adds to the value of SEO, Social Media integration, content delivery and other approaches used on the web to drive up usage. Usability design requires an appreciation of culture, human behaviour, visual interpretation, computer competence and physical ability to interact with a computer. Usability design has a dramatic affect on the quality of the experience a person has when interacting with your web site.

Highly usable web sites keep people coming back for more.

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Open Source Adoption

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Defining the business case for Open Source adoption, benefits evaluation, license audit, balanced comparison with proprietary technologies, impacts on IPR, removal of lock-in, technical fit, open standards compliance, code integration, tool integration, technical support, open source community engagement and customer collaboration, security patching and upgrades, value comparison, customisation and contribution.

The use of Open Source technologies is common place in the industry today and whilst its use requires technical teams to shoulder greater responsibility the benefits go far beyond what can be achieved through traditional licensing means.

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