Case Studies
Betting on Offshore
Tabcorp needed to scale delivery capacity fast in a tight talent market. Pragmateam set up a dedicated offshore team that integrated deeply with Tabcorp's tribes and, over three years, delivered key initiatives across four product areas — with the same efficiency as onshore teams.
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Pragmatic insights
There’s no doubt that 2020 was a tumultuous year for everyone and it’s widely acknowledged that government assistance has been a big part of keeping people safe and supporting businesses and individuals financially. At Pragmateam, we’re super proud to have been part of several support initiatives provided by the NSW Government.
We were recently discussing ways to show how we have a successful offshore model with Brazil and I thought there was no better way than the actual people involved talking about their experience: I happen to be originally from Brazil, where I started working for Pragmateam through the partnership with DB and that's where this story 'from the trenches' begins.
I’ve grown a bit tired of strategies for ‘digital transformation’ that focus on agile, team structure, customer research, architecture, continuous delivery and ways of working (lots of them quite good advice, btw) but don’t say one word about the strategies to motivate and get people to change. Agile, lean, software engineering and product development practices are the easiest parts to solve but the people aspect, buy-in and ‘stickiness’ of those changes are not as straightforward.
There is a common trend for teams to push ahead with partially completed work, irrespective if it no longer aligns to our goals. It feels counter intuitive to halt this work, but if done in a conscious and informed manner, I encourage teams to have the brave and open conversation about whether they are still aligned to their goals.
Too often teams feel disconnected from their leaders and the company's strategy and vision.
We need to put a focus back on connecting the dancefloor with the balcony.
Think about your Agile environment. Have you implemented your version of Agile and stopped there, content that you're done? Have you focused on what Agile is actually about? In this blog post I'll share my views on what Agile is, and more importantly, what Agile is not.