Slow Delivery Is Costing You Customers, Revenue, and Talent.
When your teams consistently miss commitments and competitors are shipping faster.
Your teams work hard. They care. But releases slip. Quality suffers. Customers are frustrated. Leadership can't get reliable forecasts. And your best engineers are leaving because they're tired of fighting the system.
You can't compete when your delivery cycle is measured in quarters while your competitors ship weekly.
What Poor Delivery Performance Really Costs You
The symptoms you're seeing:
Planned releases routinely slip by weeks or months
Critical defects regularly escape into
production
No reliable answer to the question: "when will X be done?"
Dependencies create constant
bottlenecks
Technical debt growing faster than you can address it
Best engineers leaving because they can't ship quality work
Sales promising features you can't possibly deliver on time
Slow delivery means delayed revenue, increased costs, and competitive disadvantage.
Every month of delay on a £1M annual revenue feature costs you £83K. Multiply that across your roadmap.
The financial impact:
You're managing by crisis. Every release is a nail-biter. Leadership stops trusting your estimates. Customers complain.
And you're exhausted from constantly firefighting instead of improving.
What it feels like:
Why Delivery Performance Stays Poor
Your teams aren't the problem.
Your System is.
Here's what creates slow delivery:
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Invisible Waste:
Handoffs, wait times, rework, context switching. The actual coding is 20% of the cycle time - everything else is waste.
02.
Unclear Definition of Done:
"Done" means different things to different people. Work bounces between teams multiple times.
03.
Dependency Hell:
Features require coordination across 5 teams. One delay cascades to everyone.
03.
Quality Shortcuts:
Pressure to ship fast leads to skipping tests, accumulating technical debt, then spending 50% of capacity on firefighting.
05.
No Flow Metrics:
You measure velocity (outputs) not cycle time (outcomes). You're optimising the wrong thing.
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The real issue:
You're trying to go faster by working harder. But speed comes from removing friction, not adding effort.
Our Approach to Delivery Performance Improvement
We don't add process. We remove friction. We measure what matters. We create flow.
What we do:
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Value stream mapping: Where does work actually slow down?
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Measure cycle time, lead time, wait time across your delivery pipeline
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Identify bottlenecks, waste, and hidden queues
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Interview teams: What's blocking you from shipping faster?
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Benchmark against industry standards
ADAPT
Diagnose the Friction
What you get:
Data-driven diagnosis of why delivery is slow - not opinions, facts.
What we do:
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Eliminate biggest sources of waste first (usually handoffs and wait states)
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Clarify definition of done and quality gates
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Break dependencies where possible
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Right-size work: Smaller batches = faster flow
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Implement WIP limits to prevent overload
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Create fast feedback loops (automated testing, continuous deployment)
ALIGN
Remove the Bottlenecks
What you get:
Visible improvement in cycle time within 4-6 weeks.
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Establish flow metrics teams can act on
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Create visual management (what's in progress, what's blocked)
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Build continuous improvement rituals
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Address technical debt strategically (not all at once)
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Train teams in flow-based delivery practices
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Scale improvements across multiple teams
What we do:
ACCELERATE
Build In Flow
What you get:
Self-improving delivery system that gets faster over time.
Outcomes, Not Just Outputs
Short-term
6-12 Weeks
50-150% improvement in delivery speed
60-80%+ reduction in critical defects
Consistent, predictable releases
Technical debt under control
Team morale improved (engineers want to stay)
Specific
Deliverables
20-40% reduction in average cycle time
Measurable decrease in lead time for changes
Improved predictability (hit 70%+ of commitments)
Visible reduction in critical defects
Faster feedback from production
Long-term
6-12 Months
Value stream map and bottleneck analysis
Optimised delivery process
Flow metrics dashboard (cycle time, lead time, throughput)
Continuous improvement playbook
Team training on flow-based delivery
How We've Accelerated Delivery Before
Global Asset Management Firm
£13Bn Platform Delivered With Speed & Control
The Challenge
Massive, complex platform with regulatory constraints. Needed to deliver fast without sacrificing control or quality.
Our Soultion
Implemented flow-based delivery practices. Removed waste from value stream. Automated quality gates. Created fast feedback loops.
The Results
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12+ weeks reduced to under 6 weeks
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Delivery predictability: >80% (consistently hitting commitments)
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Critical defects: down 81%
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Full regulatory compliance maintained throughout
"A transformation that combined agility with control - not one or the other."
- Global Asset Management Firm Leadership
Is This Right For You?
You're a Good Fit If:
Your delivery cycle is 40%+ longer than key competitors
You routinely miss production release commitments
Quality issues regularly escape into production environment
Leadership can't get consistent, reliable forecasts
You have multiple teams with coordination challenges
You want measurable improvement, not
process theatre
This Isn't Right If:
Your delivery is already industry-leading
(top 10%)
You're unwilling to change current ways of working
You expect improvement without investing in technical practices (automation, CI/CD)
Common Questions About Transformation Rescue
Initial improvements (10-20% faster) in 4-6 weeks. Significant improvements (50%+) in 3-6 months as changes compound.
We're tool-agnostic. We work with your existing stack (Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.). Sometimes we recommend additions (like better CI/CD), but we don't rip and replace.
Some technical improvements (automation, CI/CD) are often needed - but we prioritize based on ROI. Biggest gains usually come from process changes, not tech.
We've worked extensively in regulated environments (financial services, gaming, defense). Compliance doesn't have to mean slow -it means smart.
We build capability, not dependency. We train your teams, establish metrics they can track, and create continuous improvement rituals.
Let's Diagnose Why Your Delivery Is Slow
Here's what happens when you book a delivery performance assessment:
We've improved delivery performance for 40+ enterprises. Let's see what's possible for you.
Delivered 187% faster time-to-market for Ladbrokes Coral, 12-week to 6-week cycles for a Global Asset Management Firm.
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15-Minute Call: We ask targeted questions about what's happening
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Honest Assessment: We tell you if we think it's salvageable - and what it would take
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Quick Win Identification: If we can help, we'll identify 2-3 quick wins we can deliver in weeks
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No Sugar-Coating: If it's unsalvageable, we'll tell you. If it needs different help, we'll tell you that too
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