InRhythm

Your partners in accelerated digital transformation

Lean

Our Methodology in Handy Infographic Form

We have spend countless hours and weeks nailing down the perfect framework for our product development strategy. At InRhythm, we aim to be at the top of the game. We want to help enterprise businesses digitally transform and build something incredible. Our teams embed on-site for all our projects to complete the best results. We work on projects both big and small, thus we needed to create a framework that could be scaled up and down with ease.

Check out our interactive version or look through this handy infographic! With this infographic, you will see how we handle projects from ideation to build, and what steps we take in between.

This is the key to our success. Have any questions? Leave them in the comments and one of our thought leaders will get back to you!

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How Lean Coffee can Transform any Disorganized Meeting

Large brainstorming sessions can be frustrating for managers and employees alike. They can be loud and overwhelming and ultimately lead to no productive outcome. We have an interesting solution for a new way to organize these meetings while ensuring that every voice is still heard. Try using the Lean Coffee approach!

Lean Coffee is a breeze to set up. All that you need to get started is a whiteboard, post it notes, pens, and your thumbs! On a whiteboard, create three columns – To Discuss, Discussing, and Discussed. Take 2-3 minutes while all attendees write down their top three ideas or discussion points, on separate notes. When finished, allow each participant to give a brief explanation of their topics. Topics are voted on using thumbs to avoid extra noise and keep things moving along. Alternatively, you may use the dot system approach as described in our handout. Every topic which gets  a majority “thumbs” up vote is something that will be discussed. Those notes get posted under the “To Discuss” column. Choose the first topic, move it to the “Discussing” column and get talking! Each topic will receive 8 minutes of discussion time and we recommend using a talking token for assistance. When time is up attendees vote, thumbs again, on whether or not the topic is worth further discussion. Once one topic is completed, move the note to the “Discussed” column. Make sure to include a round-up of all outcomes when all discussions are completed.

At InRhythm we have used Lean coffee in our operations meetings and breakfast events with great success. We recommend trying it out for any sort of group discussion time. We would love to hear about your experience with Lean Coffee – leave a comment and feel free to make use of our handout.

Written and Designed by Ricki Steiner

Getting Florida InRhythm

This week, along with CEO Gunjan Doshi, we’ve deployed a 4-person team to Florida on a mission of guiding a client on their journey of digital transformation in accordance with industry standards. In addition to thought leadership and enterprise Agile coaching, our team will be leading the front-end architecture, UX design, and more! They are having a blast and we’re excited to see the transformation unfold!

Here’s a taste of what went on this week:

Monday

Project kick-off, Gunjan Doshi, Phil Mondestin, and Davis Koh did an amazing job of introducing everyone to our frameworks and methodology.

Tuesday

The InRhythm team worked with the client’s team to start understanding the application, identify user roles, and identify pain points. We introduced story mapping, collaborative story sharing and using a physical whiteboard to facilitate planning. At the same time, the engineering team worked on core architecture and infrastructure plans.

Wednesday

The engineering team worked together on getting back-end, front-end, Docker containers, Circle CI, and automated deployment working on their local and staging environments. The front-end “Hello World” app is talking to the back-end. The back-end is hitting some of the legacy web services to ensure end to end communication is working. Each check-in to source control, kick off a build, run tests, and package to a Docker container which is then shipped to the server and made available.

We continued to coach the client’s product managers, project managers, leadership team, and engineering team on lean & agile techniques.

Thursday

We reviewed the user stories from the Product Management. The Engineering Team continued working towards Friday’s Tracer Bullet deliverable as well as some spike work surrounding data migration of legacy data.

Friday

Feedback Friday.  We shared our progress with the influencers, observers, and stakeholders on our progress from the week.

 It has been a fun packed week of great teamwork and the entire InRhythm team is looking forward to many more weeks in sunny Florida!