Running agile delivery inside a fixed budget
Fixed budgets and iterative delivery are compatible if scope is the variable. Fixing all three is what causes trouble.
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Insights
Writing, solutions and answers — in one place.
Technical articles from our engineering team, the problem spaces we build for, and straight answers to the questions clients ask before engaging us.
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Articles
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Solutions
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Questions answered
Blogs
Technical writing from the team
100 articles across 10 topics, written by the people doing the work.
Delivery
Cloud
Why cloud migrations overspend, and the three decisions that prevent it
The overspend is rarely caused by the cloud itself. It is usually set in motion by three decisions taken in the first few weeks, often by people who did not realise they were making them.
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AI & Data
Retrieval-augmented generation: architecture that holds up in production
A working retrieval pipeline is straightforward. Making it reliable enough to trust with business questions is where the engineering is.
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Solutions
Problem spaces we build for
How we approach the systems clients most often need.
Operations dashboards and control systems
A single live picture of an operation for teams currently working from spreadsheets, email and telephone — built around the exceptions rather than the happy path.
Live operational viewException-first workflow
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Customer portals and self-service booking
Self-service that genuinely reduces inbound contact, designed around the moments that decide whether someone completes the task or picks up the phone.
Self-service booking and reschedulingAccount and document access
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Cloud migration and modernisation
Moving an existing estate to cloud in rehearsed waves, with the landing zone, guardrails and cost attribution established before anything moves.
Estate assessmentLanding zone and guardrails
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How we work, answered
Commercial, delivery, legal and technical questions, answered in more detail than a sales conversation usually allows.
With a conversation, then a short discovery phase. The conversation is free and typically lasts about an hour — we want to understand the problem, the constraints and who needs to be convinced. If there is a fit, we propose a discovery engagement that produces a costed roadmap, an architecture direction and a delivery plan.You own everything discovery produces, whether or not you continue with us.
We work on everything from a focused piece of work — a Drupal migration, an accessibility remediation, a technical audit — through to multi-release platform programmes.What matters more than size is whether the problem is well suited to us. If it is not, we will say so early rather than take the work and disappoint you.
Both, and the choice should follow the uncertainty in the work. Discovery and well-defined scopes are fixed. Multi-release platform work runs as costed increments you can stop at any boundary, re-forecast against actuals as we go.We are cautious about fixing a figure on genuinely novel work, because that figure has to contain a risk premium you pay whether or not the risk materialises.
You do. All code, designs, documentation and assets created in the engagement are assigned to you on payment. We retain no licence over your product and we do not reuse client-specific work elsewhere.Where we use our own pre-existing internal libraries, they are identified in the agreement and licensed to you perpetually and royalty-free.
Yes. Non-disclosure agreements, data processing agreements and client-specific security policies are routine, and we can complete supplier security questionnaires as part of onboarding.
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