The art of product development in complex environments
Your path from today’s status quo to a better future is never a straight line! It’s small steps, with shifting direction and a moving target. With each step, you make a little bit of progress in two dimensions:
- Discovery: You figure out if you have to move the target.
- Delivery: You build things to add value.
Each of these steps adds a little Delta to the product. Yes, you’ll have an idea what the next steps will look like - but this is always subject to feedback and insights you get from the next Delta.
We navigate you through your Delta Journey,
step by step
Roadmap Planning
Together, we’ll leverage our toolbox to create a tailored roadmap evolving your product towards market success,
Delta after Delta.
Delta Toolbox
Proven methods and building blocks to effectively navigate through this complexity, be it from the very beginning or from where you are today.
Close Collaboration
Besides general guidance, we’ll contribute our expertise in areas such as product discovery, UX, software architecture, technology evaluation, or implementation.
Upskilling
Close collaboration while working on a real problem is the most effective way for sustainable learning in your organisation on the way if needed.
What a Delta Journey looks like
Getting from Idea to Product
Goal: A validated product that attracts real users and solves at least one problem better than any alternative. If we can reach this target, we are ready for scaling and evolving the product.
Product Renovation
Goal: Simplifying and untangling the existing software product to align with the current and new business requirements to mitigate symptoms like architectural complexity, slow delivery, and quality issues. While we move towards this target, we add much-needed functionality on the go.
Core Principles
Show outcomes,
not features
We focus on real impact and measurable business results. Product teams are not only responsible for working, but for evidently valuable software!
Radical focus on
actual value
We eliminate waste and think lean. Using standard solutions for standard problems on all levels is crucial for that.
Plan for outcomes,
not scope
Essentially, every Delta is a fixed-time-and-price increment to enable reliable roadmap planning. We keep the scope flexible and build the best solution to reach the outcome within these boundaries.
Entropy is
your friend
We tackle the biggest uncertainties and risks first and rather fail fast than late. A small discovery step to refine the target is much more valuable than a big delivery step into the wrong direction.
Use iterative architecture
Yes, we need architecture even when working agile. We consistently refine and evolve the big picture as we move forward, always optimising for flexibility.
Be sustainable
We must not rely on overtime to fix our schedules, and technical debt must be paid back. It all starts with realistic expectation management.
Be transparent
We do not hide problems, but instead value clear and explicit communication and point out inconvenient truths when needed.
Fail to learn
There is no innovation without learning. And there is no learning without failing. We need a healthy error culture!
I had the pleasure of working with Comsysto Reply on an Audi project that required a complex software solution. At this stage of development it was important to clearly understand and define the business processes. Comsysto Reply helped us with this by using their expertise in event storming and context mapping and I would recommend Comsysto Reply to anyone looking for an effective way to clearly define and understand business processes. Their ability to simplify complex problems and their effective facilitation make them a valuable partner in any project.
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A sneak peek into the Delta Toolbox
(Re-) Discovery Workshops
Wardley Mapping, Event Storming, User Story Mapping, Impact Mapping, Architecture Canvas, Team Topologies
Product Design Practices
User Testing, Rapid Prototyping, A/B Testing, Design Systems, Holistic UX Design, OKRs
Methodology
Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Kanban, Scrum, Scaled Agile, unFIX, ShapeUp
Software Architecture
Evolutionary, Hexagonal, Modulith, Microservices, Monolithic Frontend, Microfrontends, Serverless
Engineering Practices
Empowered Teams, Shift-Left, Security & DevSecOps, Mob Programming, Feedback & Error Culture, AI Copilot
Infrastructure & Tooling
Cloud-Native Development, Infrastructure-as-Code & Templates, Observability, Containerization, CI / CD
Shall we take the Delta Journey together?
We are more than just software developers. Our mission is to collaborate closely with our customers as true partners and create tailor-made digital products from the initial idea to market success.