SDS Agility™ Services enable companies to evolve their current product development approaches into leaner, agile practices customized to their unique goals and team environment.

Companies feel the demand to innovate more quickly. New markets, new competitors, and new technologies are just the beginning of the expanding list of pressures increasing the pace of business and requiring teams to nimbly adapt and respond. These pressures amplify the short-comings of traditional product development methodologies, limiting a team’s ability to incorporate critical feedback and frequent change throughout the process.

SDS Agility Services advise and guide teams through their customized evolution to Agility. Our expertise and years of experience accelerate our clients’ ability to achieve incremental successes and realize value faster.

Our engagements intently focus on our customer’s bottom line, delivering practices to maximize business value while tracking metrics to assess results. Our team has been actively analyzing the bottom line impacts of agile practices since the inception of the SDS Agile Development Center (ADC) in 2003. Read more in our white paper, Agile: the Bottomline.

SDS Agility Services provide a comprehensive offering of agile training, team mentoring, and management consulting to accelerate agile success. Whether you are just beginning the agile journey or are looking to further maximize results, our team can provide the complete approach that’s just right for your goals. 

• Agile Assessment / ALM Assessment
• Agile Pilot Planning
• Disciplined Agile™ Coaching
• Agile Adoption Planning – The Agile Enterprise
• Agile Team Augmentation
• Agile Tool Deployment Consulting (Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and other tools)
•  Agile Training.

SDS  Agility Benefits:

• Single source for the full spectrum of Agile development adoption, from introductory training and assessments, to onsite coaching and enterprise agile adoption planning.
• Accelerated Agile project success.
• Maximized return on investment.
• Local experts who understand your unique needs.

SDS is also a proud co-founder of TeamAgility™, a unique collaboration between Max Technical Training and Strategic Data Systems. Both organizations have been providing results-driven Agile expertise for years.

Disciplined Agile™is a customized approach created by the Agile Development Center (ADC) at Strategic Data Systems that supports each client in developing Agile processes needed to reach their goals.

Working around a foundation of proven Agile practices, client development teams are often surprised to see the level of control and repeatability included in our Agile approach—as well as our clear and simple methodologies for easier Agile adoption.

This discipline is balanced by a flexible collection of proven Strategic Data Systems (SDS) best practices, applied directly with your team withour experienced Agile experts, to guide you in formulating and implementing your own unique and optimal agile approach.

SDS Agile Development Center (ADC) Prevent delays, maximize resources, and reduce errors. The SDS Agile Development Center was established in 2003 and is conveniently located off of I-75. The ADC provides offsite and virtual project execution options that relieve you of space constraints and costs associated with providing physical workspace.