Summary
Impact
Emergn is a global professional services and business consulting firm that blends Lean and Agile principles and practices to optimize the way organizations develop and deliver solutions across the enterprise. At the core of Emergn is Emergn enablement, the company’s problem-centric and value-driven continuous improvement platform. The Emergn enablement platform comprises three primary components:
- a knowledge platform comprised of best practices
- a delivery program that creates flow
- continuous improvement for the organization and the processes that support it to deliver the highest value.
The Emergn enablement knowledge repository of project information is categorized against a taxonomy of Problems, Values, Practice Families, Practices, and Artifacts. The benefit to the customer is a targeted set of solution points delivered by consultants. Emergn enablement will also become available to end users through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering.
Key findings
Strengths:
- Agile and Lean practices knowledge base serves as enablement platform
- Range of services covering consulting, on-site mentoring, and offshore delivery
Weaknesses:
- Mapping practices to value drivers is still under construction
- The Kanban storyboard software would benefit from a work-in-progress limit feature
Key Facts:
- Suitable for large-enterprise Agile and Lean adoption programs
- Recent merger with exoftware added to Emergn’s consulting experience
Ovum view
Agile software development is now in the mainstream and the number of organizations seeking to adopt its practices, whether extensively or incrementally, has mushroomed. The spread of Lean practices is also now filtering through to software and IT, and the combination of Lean and Agile is leading to innovative processes. As a result of this growth of adoption, the need for guidance and on-premise assistance has never been greater. The question of how to enable this transition is a challenge in itself because organizations are never standard – they vary in their cultures, their accepted processes, how they mix these processes, and the variety of skills available. Introducing a change towards Agile and Lean will never be straightforward, as these movements are not just a collection of techniques but also require a change in culture and attitude. At the same time, the traditional internal cultural divide between the business and its IT people can become widened rather than reduced due to a lack of understanding of how to implement Agile and Lean practices.
There is therefore a need for experts to help organizations transition to new ways of developing software. Emergn offers a variety of services based around three aspects: a core body of knowledge, a delivery program, and continuous improvement: named Emergn enablement. Emergn enablement is designed to help the customer identify its needs and then have those needs fulfilled, in three steps: strategy (what to do), organization (how to do it), and execution (do it). To help achieve this transition, a body of knowledge has been built up which currently comprises 30 practice families containing over 225 practices.
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