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Continuous Improvement

Our claim is to support our customers in their endeavors remaining lean, agile and compliant. We build our services on consultants with broad experience and holistic views. Combined with a network of specialists to find effective and sustainable solutions working hand in hand with our customers.

Customers about our services

ReqEdit – Supply Chain Solution

"Vow - this is awesome"

N.N.

Procurement Engineer at an Industrial Mobility Company.

Rhapsody Training Feedback

Ich war mit allem zufrieden. Das war das beste Training, das ich je besucht habe.

Grösserer Automobil Zulieferer

Software Engineer

Mettler Toledo AG

„Now the advantages of our solid foundation work will have a large impact. A model is easy to adapt and maintain and new functions can be integrated very fast. In combination with the automatic code generation and testing we now will be strikingly faster… with a consistent high quality. Today we save time and money – not least thanks to IBM Rational Rhapsody!"

Wolfgang Boos

Head of Software

SIX Financial Information Ltd

“Our vision was to know at all times in which process phase a change is.”

Michael K. Steinhöfel-Cordova

Head of Quality Management

Bernina International AG

„The architecture must be set up in the right way and in conformity with the requirements of model driven development – right from the beginning! I strongly recommend to seek for the support of an external, experienced Rhapsody specialist as for example supplied by EVOCEAN and to model the architecture together.“

Giovanni Annunzio

System Architect

Mettler Toledo AG

„Development in the embedded area should be platform independent and the used tools should support this!“

Wolfgang Boos

Head Software Development

Rhapsody Training Feedback

The trainer was very well prepared, has an excellent overview and deep knowledge about the tool and about our surrounding processes (A-Spice) and methods.

Large Automotive Supplier

Systems Engineer

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„Starting to use Rational Rhapsody®without coaching or training is not recommended. Understanding the why behind certain processes is essential to working effectively. Training with EVOCEAN was very valuable for me in this regard."

Vitali Mozgovoi

Software Developer

Bernina International AG

„Abstraktion, Simulation, Wiederverwendung und automatische Codegenerierung sind bei Bernina zentral für eine kurze Time-to-Market… und somit der Schlüssel zum Erfolg!“

Giovanni Annunzio

System Architect

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"It is very easy to set up and run a Perforce Helix Core proxy server for working with geographically dispersed teams. Downloading data is also very easy. We were amazed at how much time we saved."

Eric Gutmann

Project Leader

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Digital Adoption

Digital Adoption Platforms to empower the user in the digital World

Digital interaction in the workplace and also in everyday life is becoming more and more the status quo. At the same time excellent user experience and promoting feedback is becoming ever more important. This is especially true for organizations to learn faster as they evolve at increasing pace.

Systems Engineering

Products are more and more complex and interconnected. With the uprising of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the opportunities given by the digitalisation of the Product Life Cycle, aka. Digital Transformation and Digital Twin, addressing better ways is becoming ever more important.

The Quest for Continuous Improvement in Software- and Product Development.

Are you looking for simple practices to improve the collaboration between projects or to shorten your product development time? Or are you just interested in ways to boost the motivation of your development teams? Instead of applying complicated, unsuitable procedures, collect information about your organization and start a step-wise improvement project based on actual needs and competencies.

Start with an improvements backlog

You need to prepare your organization for the change. The change receives a direction – with the vision, which entails the goals as well as their value for the customers and the organization. Prioritize the topics to address, and build a list of improvements called the improvement backlog. It will grant a sound basis for a successful continuous improvement. Use agile principles, to learn and adapt your improvement backlog as you move forward.

Build on strengths

At the beginning of every improvement project, carefully build a picture of the actual situation. What is already working fine? What can be kept and propagated between projects? Get a balanced view from your team about what they think is most important and the different objectives they want to achieve. If the team stands behind the aimed objectives, it will embrace the change emotionally.

Explore

When establishing new work practices, techniques and tools, bear in mind that development teams do not act in predefined patterns: deploy only rough workflows, general goals and guidelines. Allow space for the project teams to tailor the techniques according to their own needs. You must ensure an open communication. Share the improvement backlog with everyone who will be affected and listen to their comments.

Give it a try!

Ask the early adopters from the different units to pilot the initial solutions in their own projects. They are the most capable persons to gain practical experience, adapt the development practices and then optimize the way they work. Make sure that the improvement is not tailored to a single person or project.

Visualize progress

Visualize your team’s every-days tasks to make progresses and bottlenecks apparent. Use simple Task Boards or Kanban Boards as a quick way to get an objective view of what works and what not. You can then improve the work practices accordingly.

Eliminate waste

Changing is not only about adding new techniques and tools. It is also about departing from old habits that are not anymore useful.

Anchor the change in everyday life

Ask the participants of the first pilot to deploy the improved practices to other projects and to communicate their personal experience to their peers. They can also help their peers to tailor the practice to new projects. Let the participants and the structure vary when the number of projects involved is growing. Communicate new successes and advantages of deploying the new practices to the complete organization.

Start your journey here

We can help you to take the next step. Some of the projects activities we typically deal with:

  • Identifying development techniques adapted to your R&D, software- or product development and starting a continuous improvement project
  • Defining improvements goals and starting an improvement backlog for your organization
  • Designing an effective infrastructure and project for change
  • Coaching Scrum teams for crossing the canyon of chaos towards established agile practices
  • Introducing Kanban boards.
  • Coaching lean/Kanban development teams to visualize progresses Leading and Implementing continuous improvement projects for development teams
  • Designing and implementing agile R&D strategies
  • Aligning agile teams with product development regulations and standards such as IEC 62304 Medical Device Software Process Life cycle

For more information or if you are interested in a startup-up workshop for your team, please take up contact with us.