Ivar Jacobson International : Ensuring Enterprise-Scale Agile Software Development

Today’s fast-paced digital world requires businesses to be fast, flexible, and scalable in their methodologies. It stresses the need to have adaptive planning policies to outpace their competitors and have the capability to perform/pivot under any unpredictable circumstances. In this limelight, agile development has become quite the relief for enterprise leaders by acting as the impetus for surviving the digital transformation. Having said that, embracing agile methodology is no cakewalk and often creates major roadblocks in the path of companies who try to adopt this new style of software development.

Established in 2004, Ivar Jacobson International is a global services company providing high quality consulting, coaching, and training solutions for customers implementing enterprise-scale agile software development. Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) was brought to the limelight to change this particular narrative. The company provides state-of-the-art consulting, coaching, and training solutions to aid companies in achieving optimal benefits during enterprise-scale Agile software development. With agile approaches becoming ubiquitous, IJI helps customers detect the roadblocks and underlying challenges in their existing status quo and helps them navigate through the same. IJI guides clients to accomplish their vision and goals by making their business propagandas sustainable.

In essence, IJI offers an agile transformation approach underpinned by proven intellectual assets delivered by high-calibre consultants.The company leaves no stone unturned in improving the performance of software development teams by introducing new practices and removing barriers that limit their wider adoption of agile practices. To that end, IJI relies on the proven intellectual assets that enable its teams to get engagements off to a quick start and rapidly deliver value without “re-inventing the wheel” each time. The company offers holistic consulting services that make agile practices mainstream and delivers maximum value to the business pipeline. Also, IJI’s ready to go practices and frameworks enable organizations to get up and running in minimal time.

With the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) forming its core, Ivar International provides a customized learning experience to its clients–working to ensure the best, sustainable approach for each unique environment. In fact, the company is a Gold Partner of Scaled Agile and thus is able to offer training and certification at all levels. The London-based firm also motivates teams to become innovative in their approach and prepares them to build modular practices and adaptive ways of working with Essentialization— the act of applying the Essence Kernel for consolidating disconnected, conflicting, costly, contradictory, and transitory methods and practices.

An example of how IJI’s stellar services add value to clients’ business objectives can be seen in its collaboration with Japanese client Fujitsu and helped them overcome challenges pertaining to the agile way of functioning. IJI organized a fun activity to explain the client first-hand how an empowered team with latest methodologies can creatively and radically transform their performance within a trusted environment. The company translated the same energy into their workflows and helped them understand how agile principles impact their daily work and help in boosting the company’s overall performance.

With innovation at its core, IJI is thereby committed to become that common language between Agile practices and companies looking to leap into the digital transformation bandwagon. In short, IJI’s market-ready toolkit, practices, and IP empower organizations to adopt and build Agile practices and help them align their business goals accordingly.