SD Consulting Services provides a wide range of services to help Federal Contractors in addressing Agile and DevSecOps needs for the organization, delivery teams, business development and proposals. Many of the services are particularly suited to small and mid-sized companies that need targeted support starting and/or improving their agile practices.
See if any of these questions fit your organization and take a look at our service option(s) for each one.
Technical Code Challenges and Demonstrations
Is your BD team facing acquisitions with:
- Code challenges (2-3 week development efforts for a problem released with the RFP)? Direct technical leadership or coaching for the technical team leadership
- Technical Demonstrations (one-day hack-a-thon style competition)? Team building practice sessions run multiple times a week for weeks/months prior to release along with proven approaches for preparation and agile delivery
- Orals presentation with unknown questions and/or wide evaluation criteria? Technical orals coaching with representative questions and answer guidance
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Disciplined Agile Coaching
Do your agile teams:
- Call themselves Agile but still work the same way as before? Process assessment with direct team and individual coaching/training
- Struggle to get features out? Value-stream review with supporting coaching
- Miss quality targets and/or have failed deployments? Best practices review and implementation assistance
- Stuck in a rut and/or basically unhappy? Team building exercises using creative Agile techniques
- Just not sure what to do next? Support using Guided Continuous Improvement processes
Disciplined Agile Value Stream Management
Is your client:
- Struggling with their enterprise agile implementation (of just getting started)? Assessments and guidance using the Idealized Value Stream Map and DA approaches
- Working with SAFe but need more options to be effective? Leverage DA to find solutions that match your environment
- Just looking for ways to operate their system delivery support better? Exploration of the Idealized Value Stream Map and developing improvement backlogs
Delivery
Are your projects:
- Failing to adjust for Agile in the Federal Government? Guidance on adjustments to common Agile practices for the Government
- Working with Project Managers who are having trouble bridging Agile and management expectations? Facilitated workshops and/or training on Agile Project Management
- Encountering Government staff who don’t understand Agile or how in it? Custom training for Product Owners, key users and/or stakeholders
Proposals
Are your written responses missing:
- Anchor architecture? Diagrams customized for the RFP with supporting text
- Coordinated and consistent responses from contributors (individual writers from your company and/or team partners)? Volume Leadership (Technical and/or management) with subsequent guidance and revision as needed
- Coherent technical approaches between sections? Deep technical reviews with detailed recommendations (or direct revisions)
- Consistency between technical and management sections? Color team reviews with cross-referencing between sections
- Someone to write? Direct written and/or graphical contributions
Organizational
Does your company:
- Lack a standard Agile and/or DevOps approach to call your own? Custom Agile and DevOps process diagrams
- Provide your development teams a foundational approach on how your organization performs agile software development? Or does each project and/or team figure out Agile on their own? Supporting guidance and targeted resources based on your corporate practices
- Have dated guidance that needs adjustment to work in the ever-changing Federal development environment? Reviews against latest techniques and expansion into DevOps
- Need to adjust your agile processes for a specific environment such as Big Data or legacy O&M? Refined process diagrams to provide that needed focus
- Want to implement the latest guidance in Agile software development as promoted by the Project Management Institute? Guidance and coaching on Disciplined Agile
Other
Are you facing an issue/problem with Agile, DevSecOps, software development, project/program management or other topic area not mentioned? Reach out and let’s talk!
Contact Information
Reach out to me (Mike Reep) through a LinkedIn message or direct email to mreep@sdconsultingsvcs.com