Make-or-break moments when technology makes the difference.
Co-create with you the strategy and approach — whether you choose to lift-and-shift, refactor or replatform
Lead complex initiatives such as cloud and microservices migrations and platform integrations
Instill best practices for DevOps and CICD
Develop data strategy to leverage AI and streamline reporting and analytics
Analyze causes of tech debt and create a baseline
Develop a mitigation roadmap
Remediate issues in technology design and engineering operations that are contributing to tech debt
De-risk short-term symptoms to speed delivery
Develop recommended organizational structure, supported by detailed role descriptions
Define ideal personas for key roles to assist in hiring
Lead training and change management initiatives
Identify and mitigate key person risks
Provide interim or fractional leadership to guide the team
Align disparate teams around common processes and methodologies
Recommend process improvements for development and project management
Evaluate and solve for risks associated with open-source and poor-quality code
Reduce defects by improving the efficiency and accuracy of quality assurance and testing processes
Co-create a vision and roadmap to align the organization on priorities
Establish a baseline
Leverage proprietary data to establish appropriate KPIs, based on your company type and maturity level
Define and implement appropriate KPIs and metrics to measure and report progress
“Your expertise allowed our leadership team to align on a future-state vision for our product and technology architecture, as well as the process and organizational changes needed to achieve the vision. The business case resonated with our leadership and was instrumental in gaining approval for the required investment.”
Despite an ever-increasing R&D spend, this global FinTech provider experienced challenges in development velocity and quality due to tech debt, aging architecture and immature SDLC processes. With an enormous market opportunity in sight, the business questioned whether it could scale its platform, people and processes to maintain and expand its market share.
To shift the team’s mindset away from prioritizing short-term gains, Crosslake led the co-creation of a long-term tech strategy, supported by a new cloud platform architecture and a transformation plan defined by guiding principles, processes and governance to keep R&D and product efforts on track. At the same time, Crosslake championed business systems planning to improve efficiencies and support the company’s forecasted growth.
United by a common goal to capture a greater share of a growing $5T market, and with a new strategic vision and technology roadmap to guide their efforts, product and R&D teams were able to migrate customers to a new cloud platform within nine months – while continuing to grow revenue by 33 percent.