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Services

The work, from first decision to continuous improvement

Six service families covering strategy and advisory, design and architecture, implementation, quality and assurance, adoption and change, and managed services. Engagements can start at any point.

At a glance

  • 6 service families
  • 46 individual services
  • 9 lifecycle stages with defined outputs
  • Fixed-length discovery, ranged estimates

Service families

Six families, forty-six services

Every service below produces something specific. If we cannot describe the output, we do not list it.

Delivery lifecycle

The nine stages these services map onto

Services describe the work. The lifecycle describes the sequence and the evidence produced at each point.

  1. Discover

    Understand the business process, the constraints and the outcome being sought, with the people who own them.

  2. Assess

    Establish the current technical and data reality: platform state, integrations, permissions, content condition and readiness.

  3. Design

    Produce the solution architecture, functional design, data and integration model and security approach, with decisions recorded.

  4. Build

    Implement in reviewable increments, favouring configuration and keeping the solution deployable from day one.

  5. Validate

    Functional, integration, accessibility, security and performance testing, with user acceptance run against real scenarios.

  6. Deploy

    Release through a controlled path with rehearsed cutover, rollback plan and defined hypercare.

  7. Adopt

    Support the behaviour change the solution depends on: enablement, champions, communications and reinforcement.

  8. Operate

    Run the solution against agreed service expectations, with monitoring, incident handling and administration.

  9. Improve

    Maintain a funded backlog informed by usage, feedback and platform change, released on a regular cadence.

Applied to

These services are delivered across every solution family

The service is the method. The solution family is the platform capability it is applied to.

Getting started

Most engagements begin with a short, fixed-length discovery

It ends with a written output covering options, sequence, effort ranges and risks, usable whether or not you continue with us.

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