The ADAPT Product Family

Successful Adoption and Application of Agile

IndigoBlue’s ADAPT product family has been developed over 10 years to support the successful implementation and adoption of incremental management processes. ADAPT is designed to augment and complement existing processes and is therefore ideal for both green-field sites, and organisations that have established Agile teams but need to move beyond team-in-a-room and address issues of scale, complexity, governance.

ADAPT and GO - Agile Assessment

Understanding the contextual challenges of an organisational Agile transformation is essential. The ADAPT and GO process provides a standard for organisational review and capability reporting based on the 5 key areas of incremental delivery: the process; incremental strategy and prioritisation; engineering; communications and governance. ADAPT and GO identifies organisational constraints for adoption and provides a baseline for a wider transformation.

ADAPT and TRANSFORM - Value-Driven Change Management

Combining the Harvard Business Planning Framework, with an Agile-based process, ADAPT and TRANSFORM is IndigoBlue’s value-driven change management process. Developed on the premise that change cannot be analytically defined at the outset of a programme, the process is iterative and incremental and provides frequent and regular feedback loops in order to ensure that a clear focus on value is retained throughout.

ADAPT and TRANSFORM is applicable to any change programme but also includes specific artefacts to support the adoption of Agile and Lean management, including:

• Role definitions with responsibilities and accountabilities
• Role specific training material
• Template process definitions
• Document templates (input and output)

ADAPT and CONTROL - Agile Governance

ADAPT and CONTROL provides a comprehensive framework for the governance of incremental projects. Importantly it enables Agile projects to co-exist with more traditional approaches; balancing the requirements for budgetary control and stakeholder visibility with the Agile aims of flexibility and responsiveness.

The ADAPT and CONTROL framework includes:

• Project initiation for uncertainty management
• Incremental strategy development
• Just-in-time architecture and design
• Input and output document definitions and standards
• Risk identification and management
• ADAPT and COMMIT

ADAPT and COMMIT - Management for Incremental Projects

ADAPT and COMMIT provides the definitive approach to planning and tracking for incremental projects and is proven on some of the UK’s largest Agile projects.

ADAPT and COMMIT enables project teams to plan delivery milestones, make firm commitments and report against variances to plan. Using a number of planning techniques the approach provides the level of confidence expected of waterfall-based projects without lengthy up-front analysis and design. The approach includes:

• Estimation, planning and tracking
• Management of uncertainty
• Change control and issue management
• Stakeholder visibility and control
• Variability in resource availability and output
• Commitment to milestones
• Budgetary commitment
• Clear non-technical reporting metrics