Agile and DevOps Consulting Services

As a leading Agile and DevSecOps consulting services company, CTG understands that companies across all industries face enormous pressure to realize competitive advantages quickly through digital transformation. But embarking on these new projects is not just a matter of purchasing new technologies. Instead, digital transformation requires new ways of working to create value quickly to achieve business objectives. Adopting the Agile methodology or moving to a DevSecOps culture can accelerate digital initiatives by increasing collaboration and transparency and quickly delivering incremental releases focused on increasing the customer value.

Most IT organizations are already familiar with the Lean-Agile methodology and its focus on rapid, iterative, and customer-centric software development through teams that self-organize and collaborate. Agile Scrum emphasizes short sprints of development focused on the critical functionality, while Agile Kaban emphasizes the user story, continuously optimizing the flow needed to realize that story. Either way, the Agile methodology is known for allowing development to “fail fast, fail early” to identify errors and adjust through quick feedback. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) provides a knowledge base of proven practices for implementing Agile practices on an enterprise scale and offers Agile training and certification.

Sustainability and predictability go hand in hand in Agile development as they enable teams to deliver on-time, consistent results that meet customer expectations. Maintaining a consistent work pace keeps team members excited and focused on the project and helps prevent burnout that reduces productivity. Achieving sustainability requires being consistent in terms of the velocity of each sprint (how much work is performed) and customer value that was delivered. When a team is truly sustainable, this in turn provides the ability to predict their output and provide reliable, data-driven information about timeline and budget based on historical data. Being able to predict what a team can achieve within a certain timeline can be extremely valuable when it comes to realistic long-term planning for the business.

DevSecOps embraces the Agile methods of making releases quicker, but goes beyond that to remove the silos between development, operations, and security teams to promote quality, reduce complexity, and increase security. DevSecOps is not a department on the org chart, but rather a framework across the organization. The emphasis on shared ownership of projects through their entire life cycle—from initial planning through end-user support—encourages rapid feedback, collaboration, and workflow automation.

DevSecOps tools automate the development, operations, and compliance processes, creating functionality to support activities such as continuous development (CD), continuous integration (CI), continuous testing, continuous cloud security, and continuous monitoring. By lifting the burden of routine tasks from development, IT operations, and compliance, the focus shifts to providing value to end users.

While the amount of change needed to make an Agile transformation and/or embrace a DevSecOps culture is considerable, both offer organizations ways to accelerate their digital transformation.

So, how do you ease your transition? CTG’s Agile and DevOps solutions focus on optimizing your organization by engraining a new way of thinking and working. Whether transforming a department, or your entire enterprise, leveraging Lean-Agile methods is more than simply implementing a framework and tools. It requires all team members to commit to this new mindset and feel enabled to optimize their processes and support sustainable value delivery.