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Transformation Vision & Strategy

A well-defined vision and strategy is the north star of an organization, creating a shared understanding of the target end state. It is the reason for successful transformations and often the root cause for not achieving value realization. Implementing cutting-edge technology relies on a bullet-proof strategic plan that clearly lays out the future-state vision and the roadmap to realization.

Understanding the “what” and “why” of the transformation vision is critical to everyone participating in the program. We collaborate with leadership to unpack and capture these key components and craft a plan that articulates the vision, purpose, and value proposition in a way that is globally understood throughout the organization. Developing the strategy is simple. Gaining and maintaining alignment on the strategy throughout the transformation is the challenge.

It is crucial that leaders prioritize commitment to the vision and strategy. We help our clients anticipate strategic pivots and counsel them on the benefits and risks of deviating from the agreed-upon plan. We provide our clients with the tools to effectively communicate, collaborate, and develop a shared commitment to overarching goals, ultimately enabling greater innovation, alignment, and desired outcomes.

Product Discovery & Leadership

Blue Phoenix customer-centric product leaders establish and maintain a disciplined product discovery and management process that fosters clarity, creativity, rapid prototyping and embraces change. We identify and evaluate problems and opportunities to determine product market fit. Our approach is simple. It involves continuously scanning the environment and using lean tools such as design sprints, lean decision jams, and lean business cases to rapidly identify the most important problems to solve and prototyping solutions that solve them.

Masters of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, LeSS methodologies, we tailor a “speed to market” strategy for each customer based on the customer’s organizational structure and appetite for change. We translate discovery learnings into value-driven product and implementation roadmaps and craft business focused Epics, Features, and Stories. In collaboration with business and technology, we lead the prioritization, organization, planning, and testing readiness of the product increment. We analyze the future state vision and the current state to identify and capture gaps and process improvement opportunities. Blue Phoenix’s reputation as a premier product partner is a result of our proven ability to rapidly discover and shepherd product value into the hands of end-users.

Architecture & Design

We approach technology transformations knowing that the current state systems, often decades old, must operate simultaneously with the development and release of new, modernized systems. More often than not, this reality creates the biggest challenge to the transformation effort. While a “big bang” cutover may seem safest for the organization and end users, it often results in “ churn and burn” and over-architecting . We prefer to leverage a “risk adverse” approach that allows existing functionality to change without affecting end users. This approach creates operational independence for the teams developing the underlying capabilities and allows new functionality to be iteratively developed and launched.

Our Solution Architects collaborate with product and PMO to build an implementation plan incorporating this approach’s agility and the speed at which value can be de ployed, tested, released, and realized .

We utilize lean agile, or minimum viable, architecture. This approach fosters a collaborative, deliberate, and flexible environment that allows for top-down planning and bottom-up refinement to ensure elegant, reliable, scalable, yet affordable solutions while minimizing e-waste: defects, overproduction, waiting, unused talent, transportation, inventory, motion, and excessive processing.

Teams evolve strategy, inform roadmap, and test hypotheses and assumptions through incremental development and continuous feedback. We work with organizations to create flexible and customizable solutions that work within the current environment and evolve with the organization. We design unique solutions depending on your design ’ s framework, languages, and features, using proven processes and methodologies to help integrate architecture into every decision. All this ensures elegant solutions that meet customer and business needs.

Development & Testing

We integrate a pragmatic lean-agile approach into an organization’s existing governance processes to deliver quality code through disciplined practices, meticulous attention to detail, and active collaboration across all stakeholders. This approach fosters a collaborative, deliberate, and flexible environment that allows for top-down planning and bottom-up refinement to ensure elegant, reliable, scalable, yet affordable solutions while minimizing waste.

Teams evolve strategy, inform the roadmap, and test hypotheses and assumptions through incremental development and continuous feedback. We work with organizations to create flexible and customizable solutions that work within the current environment and evolve with the ever-changing demands of the future while actively working to reduce technical debt accumulated over the years.

Developers and testers integrate early on in the process, developing, testing, and demonstrating value iteratively for business and other stakeholders. We work with clients to evolve from an iterative development to a continuous integration and deployment environment, transforming the mindset, culture, and technical capabilities that allow for improved quality and speed to market future feature sets. To drive home this DevOps mentality, we collaborate with leaders to evolve the mindset, culture, and technical capabilities that will allow for improved quality and speed to market of future feature sets.

PMO Support & Implementation

Unlike traditional PMO support, we deploy seasoned leaders who support and serve the teams delivering work and coach and advise our business clients on optimizing value delivery. Leadership is developed through experience. Our PMO and Implementation leaders fully integrate themselves into the team-building relationships based on trust, authenticity, and empathy. This engagement model allows us to recognize and respond to team dynamics, identify gaps and risks, and create concise mitigation plans.

As trusted program leaders, we prioritize transparent communication at all levels and throughout all phases of the program, earning our reputation as trusted leaders and partners. We facilitate change and growth for our clients and provide the necessary training and coaching for long-term delivery success. Our leaders know the value of protecting the team and keeping them focused on the desired outcome. We establish guiding principles and working agreements at the beginning of each engagement and revisit them throughout the program. This strategy celebrates and encourages accountability, allowing the team to operate in an open, trusted, and authentic environment, maintaining a shared focus on the goal.

Transformation Vision & Strategy

A well-defined vision and strategy is the north star of an organization, creating a shared understanding of the target end state. It is the reason for successful transformations and often the root cause for not achieving value realization. Implementing cutting-edge technology relies on a bullet-proof strategic plan that clearly lays out the future-state vision and the roadmap to realization.

Understanding the “what” and “why” of the transformation vision is critical to everyone participating in the program. We collaborate with leadership to unpack and capture these key components and craft a plan that articulates the vision, purpose, and value proposition in a way that is globally understood throughout the organization. Developing the strategy is simple. Gaining and maintaining alignment on the strategy throughout the transformation is the challenge.

It is crucial that leaders prioritize commitment to the vision and strategy. We help our clients anticipate strategic pivots and counsel them on the benefits and risks of deviating from the agreed-upon plan. We provide our clients with the tools to effectively communicate, collaborate, and develop a shared commitment to overarching goals, ultimately enabling greater innovation, alignment, and desired outcomes.

Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures (TTPs)

  • Organizational Discovery & Design
  • Leadership Workshops & Facilitation
  • SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
  • Strategic Objectives & Key Results (OKR)
  • Strategy Formulation
  • Planning, Communication, & Execution
  • Organizational Capacity & Design
  • Benefits Delivery Excellence

Product Discovery & Leadership

Blue Phoenix customer-centric product leaders establish and maintain a disciplined product discovery and management process that fosters clarity, creativity, rapid prototyping and embraces change. We identify and evaluate problems and opportunities to determine product market fit. Our approach is simple. It involves continuously scanning the environment and using lean tools such as design sprints, lean decision jams, and lean business cases to rapidly identify the most important problems to solve and prototyping solutions that solve them.

Masters of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, LeSS methodologies, we tailor a “speed to market” strategy for each customer based on the customer’s organizational structure and appetite for change. We translate discovery learnings into value-driven product and implementation roadmaps and craft business focused Epics, Features, and Stories. In collaboration with business and technology, we lead the prioritization, organization, planning, and testing readiness of the product increment. We analyze the future state vision and the current state to identify and capture gaps and process improvement opportunities. Blue Phoenix’s reputation as a premier product partner is a result of our proven ability to rapidly discover and shepherd product value into the hands of end-users.

Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures (TTPs)

  • Product Discovery & Visioning
  • Product Market Fit & Value Proposition
  • Value-Driven Roadmaps
  • Customer Personas & Empathy Maps
  • Rapid Prototyping & Hypothesis Validation
  • UX Research, Design & Validation
  • Product Coaching
  • Epic, Feature & User Story Definition
  • Process Analysis
  • Agile / Scrum / SAFe / LeSS

Architecture & Design

We approach technology transformations knowing that the current state systems, often decades old, must operate simultaneously with the development and release of new, modernized systems. More often than not, this reality creates the biggest challenge to the transformation effort. While a “big bang” cutover may seem safest for the organization and end users, it often results in “ churn and burn” and over-architecting . We prefer to leverage a “risk adverse” approach that allows existing functionality to change without affecting end users. This approach creates operational independence for the teams developing the underlying capabilities and allows new functionality to be iteratively developed and launched.

Our Solution Architects collaborate with product and PMO to build an implementation plan incorporating this approach’s agility and the speed at which value can be de ployed, tested, released, and realized .

We utilize lean agile, or minimum viable, architecture. This approach fosters a collaborative, deliberate, and flexible environment that allows for top-down planning and bottom-up refinement to ensure elegant, reliable, scalable, yet affordable solutions while minimizing e-waste: defects, overproduction, waiting, unused talent, transportation, inventory, motion, and excessive processing.

Teams evolve strategy, inform roadmap, and test hypotheses and assumptions through incremental development and continuous feedback. We work with organizations to create flexible and customizable solutions that work within the current environment and evolve with the organization. We design unique solutions depending on your design ’ s framework, languages, and features, using proven processes and methodologies to help integrate architecture into every decision. All this ensures elegant solutions that meet customer and business needs.

Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures (TTPs)

  • Current & Future State Architecture Assessments
  • Cloud and Platform Migration
  • Technical Design & Implementation Planning
  • Data Architecture Design
  • Performance Optimization
  • System Maintenance & Support
  • Design and Systems Thinking Workshops
  • Tooling, Process & Best Practices Guidance
  • Technical Design Document (TDD)
  • Solution Architecture Package (SAP)
  • End-to-End Solution Delivery

Development & Testing

We integrate a pragmatic lean-agile approach into an organization’s existing governance processes to deliver quality code through disciplined practices, meticulous attention to detail, and active collaboration across all stakeholders. This approach fosters a collaborative, deliberate, and flexible environment that allows for top-down planning and bottom-up refinement to ensure elegant, reliable, scalable, yet affordable solutions while minimizing waste.

Teams evolve strategy, inform the roadmap, and test hypotheses and assumptions through incremental development and continuous feedback. We work with organizations to create flexible and customizable solutions that work within the current environment and evolve with the ever-changing demands of the future while actively working to reduce technical debt accumulated over the years.

Developers and testers integrate early on in the process, developing, testing, and demonstrating value iteratively for business and other stakeholders. We work with clients to evolve from an iterative development to a continuous integration and deployment environment, transforming the mindset, culture, and technical capabilities that allow for improved quality and speed to market future feature sets. To drive home this DevOps mentality, we collaborate with leaders to evolve the mindset, culture, and technical capabilities that will allow for improved quality and speed to market of future feature sets.

Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures (TTPs)

  • Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Manual and Automation Testing
  • Test Plan, Strategy, & Scripts Development
  • Environment Readiness & Release Management
  • Quality Assurance (QA), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), End-to-End Testing
  • Para-Programming & Peer Review
  • Code Quality Validation
  • Section 508 Accessibility Compliance
  • Integrated Error Handling and Troubleshooting
  • Feature Flagging and Toggle Switching
  • Tech Debt Management

PMO Support & Implementation

Unlike traditional PMO support, we deploy seasoned leaders who support and serve the teams delivering work and coach and advise our business clients on optimizing value delivery. Leadership is developed through experience. Our PMO and Implementation leaders fully integrate themselves into the team-building relationships based on trust, authenticity, and empathy. This engagement model allows us to recognize and respond to team dynamics, identify gaps and risks, and create concise mitigation plans.

As trusted program leaders, we prioritize transparent communication at all levels and throughout all phases of the program, earning our reputation as trusted leaders and partners. We facilitate change and growth for our clients and provide the necessary training and coaching for long-term delivery success. Our leaders know the value of protecting the team and keeping them focused on the desired outcome. We establish guiding principles and working agreements at the beginning of each engagement and revisit them throughout the program. This strategy celebrates and encourages accountability, allowing the team to operate in an open, trusted, and authentic environment, maintaining a shared focus on the goal.

Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures (TTPs)

  • Project Transparency & Status Reporting
  • Project Planning & Scheduling
  • Meeting & Workshop Facilitation
  • Strategic Communications
  • Business Change Management
  • Scope Change Management
  • Jira Setup and Administration
  • Risk, Action Item, Issues, & Decision Management

Our Approach

Blue Phoenix places leaders on the front line, fostering a culture of collective learning and cross-functional team experimentation to achieve the mission. We facilitate both discovery and delivery, highlighting the importance of leadership engagement and promoting integrated learning at all levels to optimize value.

Precision

We leverage our mission-centric mindset to enhance accuracy within our clients’ program management, value discovery, and delivery processes. Our trusted advisors know the value of precise, common language to facilitate shared understanding and the importance of strict adherence to the fundamentals to consecutively hit the mark.

Adaptability

Change is anticipated and embraced. With 25+ years of industry experience and military service under our belts, we ready our clients with the pivots to expect at every phase of the program and how to navigate them. Our Veteran leaders are experts at predicting change and adapting quickly. We guide teams to build models and seek feedback early and often, allowing for rapid discovery and delivery of value. We continuously generate options, evaluate each opportunity, and responsibly pivot to value without hesitation. We “Pivot or Die.”

Coordination

We synchronize internal and external teams throughout the transformation lifecycle to ensure seamless value realization. Regardless of whether coordination is required between third-party vendors, environments, businesses, or systems, we move fast to make sure the right people contribute to the desired goal and outcome. Our empowered teams operate with intent and self-organize to independently identify the most effective way to solve a problem or answer a question.

Synergy

We are experts at building mission-focused teams and guiding organizations to create an environment for them to achieve greatness on their own or in combination with other teams. We lead from the front, synthesizing and aligning on intent and vision that allows for decentralized decision-making and integration of all domains required to be successful in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) environments.

Our Impact

Data is quantified in real-time — the true impact is perpetually expanding and growing. Our creed embodies the spirit of relentless persistence. “In the face of adversity, we forge ahead with unwavering resolve: Military Perseverance.”

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