Approach

We work ourselves out of a job. Every engagement is designed to end with your team running the result. The method is simple and we do not skip steps.

The shape of an engagement

Who does the work during an engagementOur share of the work starts high and falls to nothing by the end. Your team’s share starts low and rises until they run everything.Our share of the workYour team’s share01 Understand02 Shape03 Build alongside youWho does the work during an engagementOur share of the work starts high and falls to nothing by the end. Your team’s share starts low and rises until they run everything.Our share of the workYour team’s share
  1. 01Understand
  2. 02Shape
  3. 03Build alongside you
A sketch of how the work shifts. The engagement ends when the top line is yours.

Three steps

01Step

Understand

We sit with the people doing the work, read the tickets, follow an order from start to finish. By the end we can show you, in your own numbers, where the hours go and which decisions really need a person.

02Step

Shape

We choose a small number of processes, write down what a correct result is, and decide how it will be checked. Nothing gets built until both sides agree on how we will know it works.

03Step

Build alongside you

Your people build with ours from the first day. Every week a little more of the system is theirs, until the day we are not needed. That day is the goal of the engagement.

What we hold to

  1. 01

    Start with the work, not the model

    Technology choices come last. First we need to know what the work is and what a good result looks like.

  2. 02

    People stay accountable

    Every automated process has a named owner who can see what it did and step in.

  3. 03

    Small, shipped, measured

    One process running in production teaches more than ten on a slide.

  4. 04

    Nothing only we can run

    If your team cannot operate and change it without us, it is not finished.

Where are you trying to get to?

Tell us about the company and what you want it to do on its own.

Start a conversation