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Visioning

We begin by helping you through the “Visioning” process to identify exactly what success looks like for the future of your organization. This is the first step of your journey to a successful digital transformation.

Once completed, this “vision” of success is what will unite your organization, guide your decision making, and keep everyone energized and focused on the actions that have the most impact.

Strategy

While many organizations aspire to be “innovative”, few invest the time and resources needed to build a strategy that embraces new ideas and allows for healthy risk-taking in order to achieve better results.

We help prepare your organization to quickly gather, test and deploy innovative ideas so you can strategize better and always stay ahead of your competition.

Governance

In order to get where you want to go, you must first have an accurate view of where you are currently, and what your next steps are.

Continuous Business Value Delivery (CBVD) is a specialized assessment and advisory framework focused on ensuring you are delivering the right product at the right time to your target market.

The CBVD® framework benchmarks your current state, provides a measurable roadmap for your transformation, aligns management on clear focus areas to be successful, and provides you with an enterprise change management plan.

Once the assessment has been completed, we will have clarity on your organization’s objectives, along with your current state and capabilities.

We will build a customized roadmap to guide you along your journey towards becoming an agile organization.

We will then begin training leaders and team members on agile methods, based on assessment results and team roles, in order to achieve your goals and make your roadmap a reality.

Initially, a pilot is launched to demonstrate the value of an agile organization. This involves implementing agile ways for an individual team or multiple teams. This is done to quantify the impact of an agile organization through verifiable results from within the organization. The way the pilot will run is briefly charted in a playbook that becomes the basis for communication for all those involved.

After the successful completion of the pilot, an organization-wide implementation is initiated with a much clearer picture. The results from the pilot are used to reassess the vision and strategy and make necessary changes for better results.

Once your team has acquired foundational knowledge about agile methodology and have begun their transformation, we then begin the coaching process.

In the coaching process, we help your organization execute agile methods at a sustainable level, implement lean portfolio processes, and configure toolsets to support effective agile delivery.

Teams undergoing significant changes to their familiar ways of working will inevitably experience feelings of resistance and frustration. Our coaching process will draw on our experience working with dozens of organizations to help your team through the depression curve, boost morale, and achieve competence.

Scaling beyond successful implementation is just as important and requires acceptance of iterations for improved results. It involves incorporating learning and investing time to mold behaviors and mindsets.

Implementing a scale up plan while being open to iterative process helps in improvising in the face of unforeseen challenges that are bound to present themselves. It enables a continuous refinement of an agile organization based on a consistent feedback loop and helps in building key roles in the organization.

Need software delivered quickly? Our experienced teams bring all the skills needed for success.

CirrusLabs team of Development Engineers, Agile Testers, Product Owners, and ScrumMasters have experience working together and rapidly ramp up to meet your needs.

CirrusLabs can help speed up your Agile adoption by embedding our experts in your Agile teams, or by providing ready-to-go, Whole Team solution.

Operations teams that support software in production want safety nets for quality, reliability, and speed of recovery – if things go south.

CirrusLabs can help you create feedback and learning loops that help the Dev and the Ops teams deliver with the four core competencies of our Continuous Business Value Delivery® methodology: Speed, Scalability, Adaptability and Quality.

We can help you create the development-to-delivery engine that enables these four competencies to break out and be reinforced within the organization.

Your cloud migration has a destination, but it isn’t the cloud. It is a state of continuous business and operations reinvention.

That’s why you should have migration advisors who understand the dynamics of your business and can help you capitalize on new opportunities across your entire cloud journey.

We focus on identifying business and IT drivers, assessing the existing setup, and defining a cloud roadmap that will also accommodate future business needs.

We assess the key areas that impact an organization’s ability to ensure the quality and speed of the solutions that are being delivered to customers.

We will provide you with hands-on training and coaching aimed at bringing a Test Infected Culture to your organization, and overcome the common hurdles to learning and adopting Test Automation.

To meet fast-changing market demands, your organization needs to move quickly. Unfortunately, many applications were not designed to be built with the speed of Agile in mind.

A non-Agile architecture can quickly become a critical choke point in your Agile delivery.

We can evaluate your application architecture and develop a roadmap for making smart, pragmatic investments to accelerate your Agile teams.

While DevOps does provide massive benefit to your organization by condensing development cycles and speeding up product release times, sometimes, this speed becomes too fast for security teams to keep up with.

This misalignment often results in insecure code, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other weaknesses that can be exploited by hackers, or cause downtime, decreased productivity, and lost revenue.

Because the speed at which software is developed and pushed to the customer can mean the difference between success and failure, you must be able to quickly develop and launch solutions that are secure at all layers for the web, data at rest, data in transit, the underlying infrastructure, and the application itself.

This means that security must be ingrained throughout the entire DevOps cycle. The fast feedback that gets created, speeds up the overall enabling of security risk management, from requirements, all the way to production delivery.

With the advent of fast moving technology, the Relationships between Retailers and Customers, Warehouses and Associates, Carriers and Shippers is experiencing evolutionary shifts.

Slowing down is not even an option!

Enterprises need to be in active mode with the latest technology trend, with SCM Functional and Technical experts.

At CirrusLabs we pride ourselves on being the supply chain industry experts for the digital age, with “Manhattan, Oracle, GT-Nexus and many other SCM Product specializations”. Our goal is to bring cutting edge Supply Chain thought-leadership and technology innovations in an agile and cost effective manner.

An organization needs to maximize its analytics capabilities to make better decisions and improve the overall outcome.

In order to do that, the organization needs to direct its actions based on trends. Moreover, they need to challenge employees to adopt best practices and focus on the issues that matter – identifying opportunities and limiting risks.

Data Science helps organizations make these decisions and many others. It also helps them test these decisions in real-time and derive quantifiable results.

Artificial Intelligence helps organizations improve their processes and gain actionable insights from their data. It helps in mining huge data across historical and real-time sources to predict trends in the future.

It helps organizations improve their current standing and prepare well for the upcoming challenges in the business. AI also helps organizations save time and resources by maximizing their efforts while reducing human labor.

“The problem is that, in many cases, big data is not used well. Companies are better at collecting data – about their customers, about their products, about competitors – than analyzing that data and designing a strategy around it.”

Harvard Business Review

Do you have a cloud strategy that collects and utilizes data to accelerate innovation, at the lowest possible cost?

Whether it’s internal or external data, we can help you collect, store, and analyze all the different types of data available to your organization. Once your data strategy is in place, the data you collect becomes a valuable asset that your organization can use to make better decisions and achieve faster growth.

Simply having the ability to collect large amounts of data isn’t enough. You have to be able to actually interpret all that data in order to derive insights that can drive your organization forward.

In simple terms, Machine Learning is a form of Artificial Intelligence that quickly and automatically analyzes large sets of data, and then discovers patterns within that data that can be used to make accurate predictions about the future.

Machine Learning makes all types of data – transactional, operational, social – accessible to your various lines of business. By building precise models, an organization can identify profitable opportunities, or avoid unknown risks.

By leveraging the combination of access to more data, falling data storage costs, and greater computer processing power, we can help your organization quickly acquire accurate insights to improve decision-making and efficiency in all areas.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a form of Artificial Intelligence that allows computers to read, hear, understand, and derive meaning from human language.

NLP gives computers the ability to understand both written communication (such as automated chatbots, auto-correct, and spam email filters), as well as spoken communication (such as Siri, Alexa, and other voice assistants).

NLP also enables those computers to communicate back to us, using our own language, and perform various commands we give to them, automatically.

By providing such seamless, two-way communication between humans and computers, NLP greatly reduces the need for human-to-human interaction. This makes all kinds of processes within organizations more efficient and provides customers with fast, convenient, self-service options for retrieving information and getting questions answered.

IoT presents many opportunities for organizations to help them benefit from new revenue streams developed with advanced services. IoT helps you build a strong business case and improve time to market leading to better returns on investments. IoT will transform the way consumers and businesses will interact.

Tracking equipment, machinery, tools, resources becomes easier using sensors and connectivity. It helps organizations with real-time insights into maintenance and asset utilization.

Moreover, being connected to more devices on the internet allows businesses to be smarter and more secure. In the time of a crisis, the connectivity enables various teams to work in a coordinated manner to resolve issues without any delay.

ZDNet defines a robot as, “a programmable machine that physically interacts with the world around it and is capable of carrying out a complex series of actions autonomously or semi-autonomously.”

The most obvious use of robotics for business purposes are automated machines that perform a specific task over and over to aid in manufacturing goods in large quantities. Robotic arms that assemble vehicles are just one, a well-known example of this.

However, recent technological advancements in both hardware and software are giving robots powerful, new capabilities. The combination of cameras, sensors, Machine Learning, NLP, and increased dexterity means that robots are now performing many complex tasks. Robots can now use data to make decisions, learn how to perform new tasks by directly interacting with humans, and even drive vehicles autonomously.

Another example of robotics is the growing popularity of “bots”, which are computer programs that perform automated tasks and workflows. According to the recent State of Work survey conducted by ServiceNow, a full two days per week are wasted on manual, administrative work. If an organization with 5,000 people automated these time-consuming processes using bots, they would save 4 million work hours per year, freeing staff to work on much more creative, high-value tasks.

As robotics technology continues to improve, and costs continue to decrease, we can help your organization take full advantage of all the new capabilities and benefits that are now available to you.