Team Foundations
Connect teams and delivery practices with new tooling capabilities establishing trust and confidence in team and operational data.Increase team productivity, collaboration and value delivery.
Empower your teams to collaborate effectively and work with purpose. Set the foundations for real-time visibility across your teams and revenue streams.
Win before change happens.
Tooling
Tooling and data driving high performance
People
Engaged empowered employees
Delivery
Accelerate value delivery and results
Team Frameworks
Capability to enable the implementation of your chosen team delivery framework. We prioritise taking a data led approach connecting your people, process, tools, data you have today.
H your ROI in real-time and make pivot / persevere decisions.
Team frameworks we specialise in: Kanban, Scrum, Team Topologies, XP, Waterfall, Product Ops, Product Management
Framework Readiness
Our readiness service ensures you have all of the right enablers in place to succeed with your framework of choice.
Detailed report on the suitability of your chosen framework, risks associated with implementation, and prioritised recommendations required ahead implementation
Target State Acceleration
Our target state acceleration service provides you with experience implementing frameworks to build high performing teams and not just the theory.
Your implementation goals and internal capability are accelerated with data driven decision making, connecting framework with tooling in a survey-less implementation.
Bring to life the framework options in the toolings so you can see, feel, and simulate your target state.
Tooling Configuration and Optimisation
Assess alignment of existing tooling and tooling configuration with your chosen team framework.
Tooling configuration elevates your framework making it easier for your teams and providing real-time data to optimise your
ROI Baseline and Measurement
ROI is often measured at the end of a transformation. With no ability to course correct.
Our ROI service baselines your current state using data and provides a real-time view on your ROI benefit measures.
As a transformation initiative sponsor you have everything you need to make decisions on whether you persevere or pivot.
Team Tooling
Implement your chosen team tools and connect them to how your teams work.
Tooling we specialise in with: Atlassian, Azure, Planview, ServiceNow
Our implementation readiness service ensures you have all of the right enablers in place to succeed with your portfolio tool of choice.
Detailed report on the suitability of your chosen portfolio tool, the quality of the underpinning data in operational tools, risks associated with implementation, and prioritised recommendations required ahead of portfolio tooling implementation
Our tooling implementation service connects new or portfolio tools with operation tools including configuration, Integration and optimisation of the system.
Configuration places how you work at the centre ensuring tooling reflects your ways of working and processes providing you with the data you need to optimise how you operate.
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The success and rate of adoption of a portfolio tool is highly dependant on the onboarding and end user experience.
Put the user at the centre ensuring a smooth experience before, during, and after adooption.
Maintain a sustained adoption enterprise wide with a green onboarding and end user experience for your tool of choice.
Service Support design, implementation and enablement to set internal support teams and users up for success.
Scalable support model established to support organizations needs.Resilient firm wide support model Tiered support model enablementClear user support and onboarding model
Our Portfolio Tooling Governance service enables tooling teams and governing bodies to effectively funnel configuration changes to assess the impact of making a change, and reach a decision on changes to an enterprise tool.
Users understand how and where to raise change requests. Tool owner can respond at pace with a go/no-go decision with the data to support it.
ROI is often measured at the end of an initiative. With no ability to course correct.
Our ROI service baselines your current state using data and provides a real-time view on your ROI and benefit measures for your tooling adoption.
As an initiative sponsor you have everything you need to make decisions on whether you persevere or pivot.
Our end user training accelerates capability and time to productivity with your tool of choice providing standard and custom training tailored to your existing ways of working.
Focus is on the trainee learning experience before, during, and after training embedding knowledge in daily practice.
We offer remote, face-to-face, and on-demand training. We provide off the shelf and customised training to meet your needs and context.
Ensure a smooth and efficient transition from your current tools to new, more effective solutions.
From analysis, planning, and preparation to execution and post-migration support, ensuring minimal disruption to your operations and maximising the benefits of your new tools.
Our service ensures a seamless transition that maximises the benefits of your new tool, whilst minimising disruption to your daily operations, setting your teams and organisation up for success.
Comprehensive evaluation of the tools and technologies used by your teams to ensure they are optimized for how your teams work, efficiency, productivity, and alignment with your business goals.
Identify redundancies, gaps, and areas for improvement within your current tooling ecosystem with actionable recommendations to enhance overall performance
Eliminate redundant tools improving efficiency and reducing cost, ensure teams have the tools they need to enhance their productivity and make informed decisions, align your tools with your business goals, and future proof you organisation making your tooling ecosystem more adaptable to the evolving needs and capabilities.
Team Performance Monitoring and Reports
Take real-time data from your portfolio tools and create dashboards and automated reports. Monitor your team performance with trust and confidence in the underpinning data
BI Tooling we specialise in:
Qlik, Tableau, PowerBI, Atlassian Analytics, ServiceNow Predictive Analytics
Provide teams with a real-time view of how they are performing in the context of flow, value, business strategy, risk, and transformation by extracting data from your tooling landscape into your BI tool of choice.
Real-time view of your team performance with trust and confidence in the underpinning data.
XLR8 brings their industry experience to provide you with out-of-the-box industry standard dashboards and reports used by high performing teams.
You can track how your t isperforming against industry standards with the real-time insight to pull the right levers at the right time to compete with the best
Portfolio Tooling today comes with a range of built in standard reports.
Our custom dashboards and reports service recognises not all organisations are standard and require their on custom BI providing you with the real-time insights you need to be high performing.
Custom dashboards and reporting in your BI tool of choice that provides you with the real-time insight and monitoring of your portfolio performance
ROI is often measured at the end of an initiative. With no ability to course correct.
Our ROI service base lines your current state using data and provides a real-time view on your ROI benefit measures.
As an initiative sponsor you have everything you need to make decisions on whether you persevere or pivot.
Our end user training accelerates capability and time to productivity with your tool of choice providing standard and custom training tailored to your existing ways of working.
Focus is on the trainee learning experience before, during, and after training embedding knowledge in daily practice.
We offer remote, face-to-face, and on-demand training. We provide off the shelf and customised training to meet your needs and context.
Win before change happens.
Tooling
Tooling and data driving high performance
People
Engaged empowered employees
Delivery
Accelerate value delivery and results
Data Connected
Data Optimal
Data Productive
Processes and tools connected to ways of working.
Case Studies
Specialist consultancy for enterprise tooling integrations and target operating model enablement.
"The best consultancy engagement we have ever experienced. This team are rockstars who can move mountains"
Initially engaged to help shape the business case for Atlassian Jira Align, modelling target state organizational design, and demonstrating measurable results using data and tooling first to model and analyse current operations.
By April 2023, over 750+ teams and 13500+ people. successfully moved from traditional delivery structures to the strategic target product operating model.
Measurable improvements in product delivery flow. dependency reductions, and delivery predictability. A case study of the engagement, which will be due to for public release, is currently in progress.
""Working with XLR8 feels different.
Their teams have immediate trust, and get results"
Virgin Money engaged XLR8 to help with Agile ways of working coaching and training, with an additional remit of helping Virgin Money and their long-term systems integrators collaborate and move to a squad/tribe structure within their technology organisation.
XLR8 embedded coaches to work with the delivery teams. in addition to strategy design and data analytics. The end- to-end product delivery flow was mapped, analysed, and used as a chart to navigate newly established teams and tribes to a product-aligned operating model.
Within the first 3 months of the engagement, measurable results enabled Virgin Money to secure a £40MM business case for multi-year transformation investment.
"XLR8's data-first approach streamlined our delivery process across multiple customer facing product"
Customer engaged XLR8 to initially deliver Agile coaching and training within their strategic customer facing technology portfolios where delivery lead times were 9 months.
XLR8 delivered an 'art of the possible' end-to-end product delivery value streams across internal business areas. This collaborative approach helped connect the business, software delivery, and test and release a management. The approach was used as a blueprint to scale a central Agility Practice for the UK, Europes, and Americas regions.
Business savings centered on productivity and optimization from the 3-year engaged were above $50MM
