Software Delivery Intelligence from Lighthouse
Know whether your software will deliver before the date tells you.
An independent, evidence-based view of whether your software teams, vendors and projects will deliver on time, on budget and on quality.
20.7%
of capacity went to rework and work that never shipped
7 of 11
committed features delivered
18%
flow efficiency, touch time versus elapsed time
31%
of story points were defects and rework
Four numbers from one Software Risk Assessment readout.
Your technology team has dashboards. Your business needs answers.
Software organizations generate endless reports, metrics and status updates. Business leaders are still left wondering.
Lighthouse helps answer those questions, because software risk is business risk.
- Are we really on track?
- What risks are we not seeing?
- Where should we focus next?
- Are we getting the return we expect from our technology investments?
Finally know what’s happening inside your software organization
Software Delivery Intelligence gives leaders visibility into the health, predictability, quality and risk profile of their software initiatives. Then we give clear recommendations for improving outcomes.
- Delivery predictability
- Quality and testing effectiveness
- Planning and estimation
- Team alignment
- Product decision-making
- Technical risk
- Vendor performance
- Capacity lost to waiting and rework
We help leaders make better software decisions
Independent perspective
An objective assessment, free from organizational politics and vendor bias.
Proven software expertise
For 25+ years we’ve helped organizations improve software quality and delivery performance.
Business-focused insights
We translate technical complexity into information executives can use to make decisions.
Actionable recommendations
We don’t stop at identifying issues. We provide a practical path forward.
Solutions built around better software outcomes
Our capabilities work together to help organizations understand risk, improve software quality and add delivery capacity where it’s needed most.
Software Delivery Intelligence
Understand whether your software organization is positioned to succeed. Best for CIOs, CTOs, CEOs, CFOs and any leader accountable for a software outcome.
- Objective delivery assessments
- Risk and root-cause analysis
- Prioritized improvement roadmaps
Technology Talent & Staff Augmentation
Add experienced professionals when you need delivery capacity or specialized expertise.
- QA and test automation engineers
- Business analysts and scrum masters
- Software delivery professionals
Software Testing & Quality Engineering
Improve confidence in releases, reduce production defects and strengthen software quality.
- Functional, automation and performance testing
- Quality engineering consulting
- QA strategy
What happens when visibility improves
Organizations often discover that their biggest delivery risks are not the risks they believed they had.
SAP S/4HANA contract assessment
Midway through an S/4HANA upgrade, a client was blindsided by a multi-million-dollar change order from their vendor. Lighthouse reviewed the contract and the work.
Vendor quality management in retail
A retailer outsourcing a custom point-of-sale project asked Lighthouse for advice before signing. The negotiation saved them roughly $10M.
Testing a data-center migration
A property management company preparing to move its data center. Our team found the problems that would have hit customers on cutover day.
Don’t wait until your project falls short.
A Software Risk Assessment gives you an independent read on where your delivery stands and what to fix first.