Company Spotlight: IndigoBlue

Among those joining us for our next event on Wednesday 14^th at Buttle UK will be the Head of Public Sector Services at IndigoBlue, a leading agile technology consultancy.

Since their conception, IndigoBlue has been at the forefront of a number of cutting edge projects in the UK, working with a wide range of clients from the British Council to IPC Media to BrightHouse. They are the current holders of the prestigious Agile Consultancy of the Year award.

IndigoBlue believe that change within their clients' businesses should be driven by the clients themselves, rather than prescribed at the beginning of their relationship and then imposed. They believe that this will help businesses to achieve self-sufficiently much earlier than would otherwise be expected.

With a focus on hands-on development of skills and experience, they provide their clients with the skills and insight needed to transform successfully to digital organisations, creating a dynamic culture and structure to allow businesses to more effectively respond to their customer's needs.

Agile Management

IndigoBlue operates under the principles of Agile Management, an umbrella terms for a set of ideas, principles and methodologies for developing software which share a common philosophy. Examples of Agile methodologies include Adaptive Software Development and Pragmatic Programming.

The term was invented in 2001 by a group of 'luminaries' in the field of software development. They recognised that they held similar views and met to agree on their areas of commonality. This meeting was concluded by the signing of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, a document which summarised their approach to software development and introduced the term Agile to combine their ideas.

The core principle of the manifesto is that 'a project should continually and incrementally deliver value to the customer'. IndigoBlue works with organisations to fully embed Agile. They have developed and refined a number of ideas to help people understand how and why Agile works, and enable projects to be governed without compromising the agility of the approach.

Key Ideas:

• Collaboration,
• incremental planning,
• and dynamic uncertainty management.

For example, the Agile Manifesto promotes 'working software over comprehensive documentation' – i.e. the need for iterative, incremental delivery. A good Agile project reduces time to market and maximises early value, delivering regular increments. Therefore, incremental planning is seen as critical to success. It provides clear direction to the project and involves a more thorough understanding and management of value then is normally required on a more traditional project.

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Our next event will be at Buttle UK on 14th September. We hope to see you there!