epicAgile™

Agile Culture of Innovation

Agile is at the very core of how VTG works to develop and deliver capability!

VTG combined our customer focus with our commitment to Agile to develop our premier capability epicAgile™. Developed by design to be intuitive, repeatable, and scalable, epicAgile™ comprises a standard set of flexible and adaptive Agile practices that fuse customer needs with leading-edge technology.

epicAgile™ is comprised of 3 core segments – Delivery, Training, and Coaching:

Delivery

Implement your solutions:

epicAgile™ will help you deliver solutions that hit the target every time. Whether you need entire teams or just a few key roles, VTG can help you hit your target while embracing the change that keeps you ahead of the game.

Training

Pragmatic, actionable instruction:

Have you walked out of a Scrum certification class and wondered where to start when you got back to the office? epicAgile™ will provide you with everything you need to hit the ground running. We can customize workshops to use examples from your own project providing value from need identification to solution delivery.

Coaching

Scrum is easy to understand. Difficult to master:

VTG never leaves you behind. If you find yourself missing the target or just want to be better agilists, VTG will be around to provide additional training or coaching based on your unique needs and your rapidly changing environment.

The power lies in epicAgile™’s simplicity, organization, and predictability. VTG uses a proven, expertly-honed approach to ensure, above all else, you achieve the business outcomes you’re envisioning; beyond that of simply implementing technology alone. We call this proprietary approach our epicAgile™ process:

VTG epicAgile™ Process

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Step 1
Define your business objectives, prior to understanding your technology objectives. It is critical to define what (business) outcomes you seek, not just what technology you think could solve the problem.

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Step 2
VTG personnel immerse themselves in your organization, seeking to understand every aspect of your business operations and a typical day in the life of your workforce.

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Step 3
Based on VTG’s full assessment of your business operations, we present the best technology solutions to meet your workforce’s needs, including recommendations for tailoring to enhance the solution and make it the best fit for your organization. VTG’s vendor-agnostic approach provides you with maximum flexibility to adapt the best solution over a one-size-fits-all approach.

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Step 4
Tailor and deliver the selected technology with a focus on continuous improvement, listening to your users and evolving your technology and processes based on changing requirements.

Our epicAgile™ Capabilities

Agile Best Practices

Our teams employ Project Charters, story mapping, frequent backlog refinement, clear acceptance criteria, sprint planning based on team velocity, continuous delivery, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives while our customized tool sets optimize efficiency and efficacy at each juncture.

Agile Coaching & Training

Our epicAgile™ Scrum workshops focus on what it takes to employ Scrum from a tactical perspective. You likely have a conceptual understanding of Scrum. We give you the routines and tools to use at a tactical level in your day-to-day activities. So you can action it, not just talk about it.

Close Collaboration

We take highly complex needs and lead sessions to untangle them. Teams obtain a shared understanding of each requirement, the value it provides, and to whom. We are in constant collaboration with Product Owners to refine requirements, prioritize, and plan.

Discovery Feeds Delivery Feeds Discovery…

Teams collaborate with stakeholders throughout the initiative to discover needs and deliver in small increments. Delivery is then reviewed for further discovery. Discovery then feeds the next iteration of delivery.

High Performing Teams

Certified Scrum Masters, Certified Product Owners, and high-performing project teams understand stakeholder needs and provide technical expertise to deliver the solution. We eliminate wasteful activities and continuously refactor our processes so that everything we do continues to add value.

Project Transparency

You have direct access to the status of all work at all times. Daily standups and Kanban boards provide insight into work-in-progress and any impediments. Every two weeks, new features are demonstrated and reviewed with stakeholders. Burnup and Burn Down charts and other KPIs keep you apprised of your initiative.

Questions?

Whether you have a specific business challenge to discuss, would like to schedule a demo or just want to learn more about epicAgile™, let us know and we’ll be in touch to start the conversation.

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