Successful digital projects are the result of users, the business, designers and engineers working collaboratively. At Keytree collaborative agile delivery is core to our approach. We have successfully introduced agile working to large public and private sector organisations, transforming the speed and quality of their delivery of digital projects for the better.

Agile combines integrated teams, with an iterative, and low overhead way of working. Agile does not mean uncontrolled or undocumented, Keytree has a comprehensive set of processes and tools to ensure quality in agile delivery. Transparency is key with all team members being able to see and contribute to progress to a common goal.

“Keytree has a comprehensive set of processes and tools to ensure quality in agile delivery. Transparency is key with all team members being able to see and contribute to progress to a common goal”

Agile & DevOps

Agile depends on regular releases, to get feedback on the evolving solution, Modern software engineering techniques make this a reality. Keytree utilises DevOps techniques to support regular, robust and repeatable releases. The focus is on having consistent, and automated processes for deploying, monitoring and managing digital services from development, through test and into production. Keytree uses continuous integration tooling to deliver automated build, deploy and test of all releases. Infrastructure as code and containerisation are used to flexibly scale services.

Why Keytree for agile delivery

  • A track record of successful agile delivery to many organisations
  • Ready to go tools and processes
  • A commitment to collaboration, quality and transparency
  • State of the art software engineering and DevOps toolsets

Case Studies – Agile & DevOps

  • Greater London Authority

    The Greater London Authority (GLA) is planning to build over 90,000 affordable homes by 2021. The Mayor of London has secured more than £3bn of government funds to support the initiative, which includes replacing heritage IT systems and creating a digitised grant application process for organisations building these new homes.

    Keytree delivered the Open Project System (OPS) using Agile and DevOps techniques, and OPS is the largest GLA project to use an Agile method. This approach was an essential element of the project – to help GLA adopt the methodology within the organisation.

    The Scrum methodology used for project delivery includes sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Each sprint has a fixed duration of two weeks with a single GLA Product Owner who manages a flexible, prioritised product backlog. In line with GDS guidance, the project code has been developed to be Open Source with the system deployed to an AWS cloud platform managed by Keytree.

    Keytree also provided DevOps support with our Managed Service Team covering incident management, development support and release management.

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  • Cadent Gas

    National Grid Gas Distribution, renamed Cadent Gas, is responsible for the gas pipes that supply around 11 million businesses, schools and homes across the UK.

    To support the rebranding of the newly named organisation, Keytree worked closely with all stakeholders who contributed ideas for the development of the website, running requirements gathering workshops to understand all business needs.

    Follow-up workshops with the same stakeholders defined target audiences, critical tasks and customer journey mapping for each user type. The information gathered was used to create a new set of personas, representing each target audience and by leveraging the content audit work, which was carried out hand-in-hand with the content strategy team, a decision was made as to what content was relevant to each target audience.

    A sketched journey using low fidelity wireframes was then fashioned to gain stakeholder buy-in to the Keytree vision of how the site would be structured. Wireframes were created to represent each key screen, and as both content and navigation were made lean, Keytree also carried out a card-sort exercise to confirm navigation for the new website.

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