Engineering Practices

Agile Engineering for High-Performance Systems

The Executive Challenge

In most competitive markets, products differentiate along performance dimensions, not just feature dimensions. It’s not only what you do; it’s how well you do it that matters. Think about a Ferrari and a Yugo. Both cars transport you to and from the grocery store and around town. Yet one costs over twenty times the other! The reason: they differentiate along many performance dimensions (and not just from 0 to 60!).

For companies seeking market leadership, excelling in performance can mean the difference between emerging as the leader and falling to the back of the pack. But, it’s not only system performance that must excel, it’s also the performance of the development team delivering the system.  People must work together, in alignment, to deliver winning solutions that create the foundations for profitable products and organizations.

Envision the Possibilities

Imagine if your development teams could learn the engineering principles that help them:

  • Deliver thoroughly tested systems iteratively, never missing a deadline
  • Work collaboratively with each other to efficiently create high quality software and systems
  • Implement high performance systems using Agile engineering principles
  • Respond to market demands quickly, including rapidly changing requirements

Our Approach

We go where the need is greatest, working collaboratively with your development teams to quickly drive improvements. Within days, we can start identifying limitations to your team’s success and start building plans to correct them. Our capabilities in Agile Engineering and Systems Performance specifically help development teams:

  • Improve productivity through the use of automation and XP principles
  • Improve code quality through the use of testing automation, metrics and feedback processes and tools
  • Learn world-class engineering practices for use in design and development of high-performance systems
  • Conduct performance assessments of systems and provide hands-on guidance for testing and tuning to meet critical service levels

Our capabilities are a blend of leadership, architecture, and coaching for organizations building high-performance solutions and products. We specialize in high-volume web transaction systems and web services requiring high concurrency, throughput, availability and resiliency. We would be happy to assist your team or organization with improving engineering practices.

The Dominion Digital Difference

Dominion Digital is a regional process and technology consulting firm known for rapidly delivering value for its clients and providing right-sized solutions to complex business challenges. Working principally with Fortune 500 and mid-cap companies, Dominion Digital partners with progressive executives to bring focus, direction, and momentum to their high-priority initiatives. Our high-caliber, seasoned professionals are passionate about producing results for our clients.

Dominion Digital provides Mid-Atlantic companies a best-value alternative to large national consulting firms. Known for our process and technology leadership, we have helped over 100 clients realize dramatic gains in business effectiveness and efficiency.

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