Gemba Systems provides guidance to those seeking to adopt Lean and/or Agile Development, as well as those looking to improve the effectiveness of their product development without attachment to a specific doctrine or methodology. Our services range from single event training workshops to managed adoption programs that provide systematic coaching and support systems.

Perhaps one of the more innovative offerings in the professional services industry with regard to coaching, is our Managed Adoption Subscription program. This program makes lean and agile development practices sticky while eliminating the waste and expense of large-batch consulting engagements.

Managed Adoption Program

The common approach to coaching a development team often means that a consultant will be onsite with their client for 4 or 5 days of each week. The consultant facilitates the team’s workflow but also monopolizes their time and directs the team in activities that are part of the consultant’s agenda during that time - 8 hours of each day. This is actually quite disruptive and very expensive.  

As an alternative to this approach Gemba offers a Managed Adoption program that provides guidance for a team adopting Agile development and does so without distracting the team from its primary objective - delivering a software product. And Gemba's Managed Adoption Program doesn't break the bank. Through a very different delivery approach, Gemba is able to provide coaching and learning sessions at a fraction of the cost of full time coaching.

Skills, practices and desired behavior become more sticky than by conventional training, and the engagement is substantially less expensive because it doesn't require the bulk purchase of time and frequent travel expenses. Read more... 

Skill Workshops 

Classroom training with a twist: All Gemba workshops apply the student’s actual working project for it’s exercises rather than contrived “toy” sample projects. No more Monday-after-blues of wondering how to apply a newly acquired skill to your project.

Development Interventions

When teams require immediate address of problem or dysfunction and time is of the essence, Gemba Systems provides in-project process interventions. Foregoing the classroom, Gemba mentors join a project in progress and guide team behavior to achieve a specific outcome.

Management Consulting

Primarily as a compliment to other services, Gemba provides customized management consulting. This is most often applied to scale existing services to large scale adoption programs.

To find out more about Gemba Systems and how we can help you contact us here.