Context

A growing startup based in Japan, providing an online business platform, sought to align the overall company priorities and daily tasks for increasing product delivery.

  • Industry: Internet Services
  • Employees: 100
  • Location: Osaka / Japan
  • Duration: 6 months @ 3h/week

Initial Situation

Problem

The initial situation described by the client:

  • It is difficult to track the company vision, strategy, and team goals connected and transparently.
  • There is no clear prioritization of work (most of the work is urgent and has high priority).
  • Product releases are frequently delayed or need to be partially reworked because of bugs.

Approach

Solution

The following approach has been taken:

  • Introduction of company KPIs, yearly roadmap, and the OKR framework.
  • Coaching the product and engineering team related to scrum (especially backlog management, incremental development, acceptance criteria writing, and definition of done).

Outcome

Result

At the end of the project, the following result were measured:

  • Timely release of an important product feature.
  • Tracking the business KPIs, product roadmap, and capacity of the product team.
  • Visualizing current and future bottlenecks related to product delivery.
  • Senior management is deeply interested in systematizing the usage of Scrum and iterative development.

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