High Velocity Product Development. Over 100 Team Transitions, Over 50 Enterprise Product Launches

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1 High Velocity Product Development Over 100 Team Transitions, Over 50 Enterprise Product Launches

2 High Velocity Product Development InRhythm is a New York based UX focused technology consulting firm that helps the world s leading financial services, educational technology and media solutions firms develop and accelerate their product delivery. Our team of passionate thought leaders embed onsite to build and deliver applications with Javascript technology stack using cutting-edge frameworks: Angular, Node, Ember, Mongo. Our UX designers are highly skilled at listening, interpreting and responding to the needs of our clients to enable their visions to come to life, and our dedicated Agile coaches deliver hands-on training and customized coaching programs to advance Agile adoption and help organizations find the right balance of people, process and product. Lean UX Accelerated customer development using rapid prototyping techniques to get from concept to MVP & beyond. High Velocity Software Engineering Building and deploying modern web and mobile applications using high velocity frameworks. Agile Delivery Rapid Assessments, hands-on bootcamps & embedded coaching to advance adoption of Agile & Lean principles.

3 What our clients say We turned to InRhythm to source A+ talent for our product and technology teams and they have delighted us. They have a deep network of talent and a virtual bench to pull from. We highly recommend InRhythm. Jeff Grayson, CIO InRhythm team members are outstanding experts in the field of Enterprise Product Development. Their practitioners had an uncanny ability to get immediately at the root of organizational issues and solve them with a structured, insightful approach. Spend an hour with them and you will learn something meaningful, I promise. Rachel Jarrett, Vice President, Kids and Specialty Products InRhythm is more than a consulting practice, they are true partners in product delivery - best engineers in the industry by far! Chris Pena, Global VP of Technical Project Delivery and QA InRhythm s consultants always walked the extra mile and generated best results. I was always confident that the projects they worked on would be of highest quality and on time. They are a reliable partner. Highly recommend them! InRhythm provided a highly skilled team of front-end engineers in a short-notice. All of their engineers were talented, resourceful and professional. They integrated seamlessly with our business and created immediate value. Highly recommend them. Vikram Menon, CTO Mahender Bohra, Director of Engineering

4 Lean UX Rapid Delivery from Concept to MVP & Beyond Our UX designers are highly skilled at listening, interpreting and responding to the needs of our clients to enable their visions to come to life. We use a lean start-up approach to research, conceptualization, design and validation to accelerate development. Responsive Web Design Clickable Prototypes: low-fi & hi-fi UI Design low-fi & hi-fi Customer Validation Labs Reusable UI Components Research - Who are we designing for? - What are designing \to build? - How do we execute our vision? Validation - A/B testing - Multi-variant - Remote/ Moderated Usability Design Requirements Concept Whiteboard Ideation with the Team

5 High Velocity Software Engineering Accelerate Web & Mobile Application, Development & Deployment Our technologists rapidly integrate on-site with your team to develop complex, real-time, secure and highly scalable applications for web and mobile. We specialize in building and deploying applications with modern javascript frameworks such as React, Backbone, Angular and Node. Single-Page Applications Legacy Platform Revitalization High Transaction Applications Mission Critical Applications User Experience Design & Delivery Mission Critical Product Development Product Build & Deployment Single-Page Application Responsive Web High Transaction Application Legacy Platform Revitalization Test Driven Development

6 What our clients say It was InRhythm that paved the path for repeatable success. They transformed my staff into a rhythmic team that had the right tools to build great products again and again. Thank you! David Uyttendaele, Founder & CTO InRhythm senior practitioners have helped us identify the top opportunities to accelerate our time to market. Their expert advice and on-site coaching has tremendously helped us establish clear goals, close gaps and establish high performing teams. Their expertise in the field of Agile software development and Lean Startups is highly commendable. Shelly Towns, VP of Product Their advice was spot-on. A senior architect from InRhythm took just a week to thoroughly analyze the architecture and profile the performance of a system that was being developed for 18 months. They came up with a prioritized list of technical debt that needs to be addressed, and gave us a critical resource to augment our project needs. We highly recommend them. Fred Lizza, CEO We have used InRhythm s services ranging from executive coaching, to training our teams on Agile and Lean-startups, to utilizing their world class front-end engineers. They have helped us create high-velocity organization and have become among our most valued partners. I highly recommend them. Josh McCarter, CEO

7 Agile Assessments Customized Roadmaps to Reducing Lead Time & Accelerating Product Development We accelerate software product development from ideation through the entire roadmap to deployment. With a systematic, scientific approach, we dive deep and investigate over 140 data points. We customize your vision map by working with your program office to cover the value stream, customer journey, roles, leadership, culture, dev ops, technical debt, change readiness and root cause. In just 6 weeks, we discover your top 7 immediately addressable gaps, craft actionable recommendations, benchmark how you stack up and deliver a clear roadmap to reduce lead time and increase capacity.

8 Agile Bootcamps Fast-Track Agile Adoption & Accelerate Product Development Our signature 3-day bootcamps empower teams to adopt and to internalize Agile practices. Our hands-on approach helps software engineers, project manager, scrum managers, QA and executive leadership make the Agile transformation and get InRhythm with a series of practical learning exercises. The more action, less lecture style makes the training personalized, engaging and interactive. Your team will walk away with a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of Agile, Lean, Kanban, and Lean-Start-up principles to apply immediately to jump-start their high velocity product development.

9 Agile Coaching Customized Roadmaps to Reducing Lead Time & Accelerating Product Development Our hands-on thought leaders integrate on-site to get your teams InRhythm with a customized methodology to find the right balance of people, process and product. Our embedded coaching accelerates adoption of Agile & Lean principles and their practical application to customerfacing product development. We work with your teams to establish the practice of continuous improvement, and enhance the ability of teams to deliver valuable customer-focused products rapidly and frequently. InRhythm coaches guide teams to apply these skills to launch an initial Minimum Viable Product through continuous delivery of high velocity product development.

10 What our clients say InRhythm provided expert resources in the capacity of user experience/ design, front-end development and QA for critical projects at IIN, specifically on our main marketing sites as well as out next generation learning platform. Whenever we needed help, they could be counted on, a trusted partner who always delivered; they have my recommendation. InRhythm helped us turn what was a chaotic, inefficient, and uncertain stress-fest into a highly efficient, predictable, and measurable machine. InRhythm unlocked and unblocked our potential. I can t recommend them highly enough. Douglas Gottlieb, VP of Product, UX and Mobile Mike Iacona, President & Director I like partnering with InRhythm, not because of their engineering quality, which has remained high over the years, not because of the value they generate which is immediate, and not because of their engineers who are sharp, fun and easy to work with. I like InRhythm because I know I can rely on them for all these things, and will continue to do so. Vijay Venkatesh, CTO InRhythm was instrumental in helping with both a comprehensive classroom training program and onsite day to day course correction, TaskStream was able to transform a product and development team of 35 into highly functioning scrum teams. Under InRhythm s guidance, business analysts were able to grow into product ownership and our engineers developed skills in TDD and automated QA processes. Gunjan also ensured that executive leadership was on board with the changes and understood the impact to the rest of the company. Taya Page, Director of Product Management

11 InRhythm s expertise in the world of front-end engineering has made them very attractive to us. We will keep using their talent for our front-end engineering needs. Highly recommend them! Dave Walters, CTO InRhythm has been a great partner for us over the years. They consistently deliver the right people for the job and often times within short notice. Strongly recommend them to anyone looking to grow their digital team. Samir Desai, Vice President, Technology Solutions We were very pleased with the results of the organizational assessment that InRhythm performed in such a short time. They exceeded our expectations. Highly recommend them! They successfully created an approach that combined business vision, product strategy, ux design, project resourcing and agile execution. Their expertise in web and mobile product development was key, and helped position us for success. The difference in the teams and their productivity are night and day, and we have InRhythm to thank! Sara Bial, VP, Product Management and Creative (ecommerce) InRhythm was instrumental in positioning our company for accelerated growth and greater success. They re a highly experienced team with an effective methodology, and they ve delivered sound recommendations that have made a positive impact to our organization. James Hemmer, CEO Amy Kadomatsu, Chief Product Officer

12 Over the last 14 months, Interaction Designers and Front-end engineers from InRhythm helped deliver the next generation of MediaMath s enterprise platform with HTML 5, CSS 3, Backbone and Javascript using Agile methodology. InRhythm delivered a high performance team with high caliber individuals, that integrated directly into our organization and delivered great results. InRhythm has proven to be a trusted, reliable resource partner and I highly recommend them. Tom Craig, CIO I have worked with InRhythm for several years now and recommend them highly to any company that wants to improve their software development practices. They have deep expertise in agile practices and the field experience to know how to introduce and apply them successfully to achieve lasting business results. John Merryman, CTO Front-end Engineers from InRhythm rapidly optimized our e-commerce mobile experience and also made it responsive just in time before the holiday season.they exceeded our expectations. Thank you InRhythm! Mark O Neill, CTO Our whole management team was throughly impressed with how fast InRhythm was able to understand our business and discover unseen opportunities. Our product delivery really got in rhythm because of them. Highly recommend them! David Kim, Vice President, Head of Product Master at training and leading people in Agile / Scrum development...superb motivator of people and an excellent judge of talent and character. Court Cunningham, CEO

13 I can t say thank you enough to InRhythm for helping us rapidly roll-out 2 major releases in record time. Their expertise in engineering, agile practices and test driven development is unparalleled. Chris Peifer, VP, Digital Business Development My team at Antenna Software took an InRhythm course in Summer I m highly recommending InRhythm training and methodology to any software team and organization that is interested to learn and apply the latest software development methodology. Their Agile methodology and training has the right balance of informative and practical/execution content. The course is completely hands-on enable you to learn and practice as you go. InRhythm Team, well done! Zoran Ivanovic, Vice President, Engineering - Mobility Platform Gunjan Doshi and his InRhythm team have been instrumental in assisting us with the culture and process changes needed to transition our product development and technology teams from waterfall to a customized agile process, tailored to the specific needs of our business and industry. We re building a whole-team approach between product development and technology, to achieve faster product releases and enhanced value by listening to our customers and our market through each iteration. Our teams are now truly working in rhythm. Trent Gavazzi, Senior Vice-President & CTO We attended InRhythm s Essential Test-Driven Development in Javascript in July of The class was well structured and gave everyone who attended a core understanding of the proper way to do test-driven development. It had a great mix of lecture material and hands-on exercises that helped us solidify the Test-Driven principles and gave my team what they need to continue to practice TDD the right way. Director, HBO Digital Products, Web Application Engineering

14 We needed surge capacity on our product development efforts to meet a critical timeline. InRhythm quickly provided end-to-end full service product development in no time to meet our needs. They are easy to work with, integrate seamlessly and provide great service. I will highly recommend them. Thank you! Pano Anthos, CPO They get product, people and technology like nobody else. Period. They have been active part of our leadership team and helped us make important decisions regularly. Highly recommend them! David S. Levy, CEO InRhythm practitioners are experts in the field of High- Velocity Product Development. Highly recommend them! Pete Chen, GM & Vice President We enjoyed working with InRhythm very much during They were able to help our team through the various difficulties of adopting Agile. During the time they worked for us, they have been a great resource to give all the kinds of training we needed, all the way from informal phone chats to working out knotty problems involving specific people to giving formal training on how an Agile team should work. It has been a joy to work with the InRhythm team and we have received great value for our investment! Mark Porter, CTO InRhythm helped us establish a tailored process using principles from agile, scrum, etc that allowed us to really scale our development engine and prepare for the significant growth in our teams that was coming. If anyone tells you they will help you do agile or scrum by the book, then run away from them and talk to these guys they will build something that fits you. Jeff Dernavich, VP of Product Management

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