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Addalot
Consulting AB Adaptive Agile for Any Business

Nicolas Martin-Vivaldi, Partner and Consultant, Addalot Nicolas Martin-Vivaldi, Partner and Consultant
Speed is the name of the game for businesses to stay relevant in today’s hyper-competitive market. Most companies aim to adopt cutting-edge software solutions, driven by data, to react faster to market changes and customer needs. However, as proprietary solutions, third-party software, and open source solutions are combined for the free flow of customer data for improved decision making, companies find their Agile strategies falling short of meeting their evolving business needs. Is there a way that companies can break out of the textbook Agile framework to satiate their diverse needs in relation to security, safety, industry-specific compliance mandates, and customer demands while maintaining allegiance to Agile?

Addalot has the answer. Addalot is a software management consulting firm helping businesses develop software with rich functionalities in an efficient manner. At the heart of the company’s value proposition is its unique adaptive Agile strategy, which combines the right tools, processes and competence, enabling companies to improve their time to market and gain high profit. The strategy emerges as the panacea to the existing woes of many different businesses across industries with its ability to facilitate software delivery that is continuous, data-driven, and customer-centric. The company’s strategy is apt in today’s era where rampant globalization has increased market competition, posing greater demand for scalability of Agile practices for businesses to thrive in complex environments.

We bring to bear the lessons we learned over the years to understand what mix of concepts and practices work best for our clients to improve their time to market and product quality using Agile

As a group of senior consultants with 30 years of experience, team Addalot fully understands how different industries operate and are able to quickly identify what it takes to complete clients’ software development picture. “We are not a bunch of management consultant penguins rambling about the latest fads,” says Nicolas Martin- Vivaldi, Partner and Consultant at Addalot. “We bring to bear the lessons we learned over the years to understand what mix of concepts and practices work best for our clients to improve their time to market and product quality using Agile.”

Unlike other consulting firms in the Agile expanse, Addalot doesn’t limit itself to PowerPoint presentations but jumps into the trenches with clients’ teams, training them on the new software development process and coaching them along the way. As seasoned project managers in Adaptive agile, Automotive SPICE, Industrial Open Source, data-driven development, cybersecurity and functional security, the team participates in the development and fine-tuning of processes in an ongoing manner. And, if at some point the client wants to stand on their own feet, Addalot watches over the developments, ready to chip in at any time required. Addalot can also double as change management expert who can contribute to reduce the friction that is often seen in change adoption among the employees in embracing a new way of working. In case of a large project that often has a pre-defined workflow and processes, Addalot, as a line organization, has its client covered.

In a case study, Baxter, a major medical device company, wanted to introduce a more Agile way of working while being compliant to IEC 62304 safety standard. Addalot, as Agile coach, helped them achieve an Agile way of working, which, in turn, led to various benefits. Transparent development cycle, improved planning on different levels (long, incremental, and Sprint), improved increment planning, streamlined requirements planning, feature coordination, and continuous integration and sustained functional safety while reducing lead times from requirement to implementation. The main achievement was implementing Agile in the hardware and verification sub-projects, resulting in improved communication across the organization.

With the data-driven strategies rampant in the industry, the company is looking to follow this trend, and others as well, and identify what the companies need today and tomorrow. “We are in no mood to rest on the laurels and discover every upcoming trend and enhance our ability to deliver more value to our clients,” concludes Martin- Vivaldi.