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Agile consulting

Implementing changes? Let’s execute this with quality, mindfulness, and on the first attempt.

  • Safeguarding against abrupt shifts and revolutionary changes
  • Facilitating a gentle transformation with strategic precision
  • Restructuring for efficiency
  • Enhancing processes
  • Prioritizing talent retention

Agile consulting

Consulting services

Small businesses and startups

  • Quickly establish an effective Scrum framework
  • Identify the key to successful development and learn to measure it
  • Configure processes tailored to your teams and product

Midsized businesses

  • Facilitate team collaboration
  • Scale harmoniously
  • Rectify outdated structural flaws and company policies
  • Implement Agile KPIs

Enterprises

  • Uncover unrealized value and enhance current capabilities
  • Learn to efficiently and swiftly implement innovations
  • Improve time to market and time to delivery
  • Track ROI and control TCO

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Our clients

We’ve been assisting organizations in promptly responding to market challenges since 2010.

Magento
Tietoevry
Infopulse
Raiffeisen Bank Aval
ДТЕК
VNGRS
Netvertise
888 Holdings
Фармацевтична компанія “Дарниця”
ОТАКОЇ
Альфа-Банк
BICS
Enavate
Itera Consulting
Adobe
Levi9 Technology Services
Micro Focus
ПроКредит Банк
Simbrella
Vodafone
UDP Renewables

Doing Agile right

Decisive choices, collective change models, and joint progress towards results.

Our services

We can assist you in optimizing structure, improving team interactions, and implementing best project management practices. Our portfolio boasts successful cases of Agile transformation, Scrum and SAFe implementation, SDLC process optimization, PMO construction, and transition to Management 3.0.

Corporate trainings

Facing challenges with processes, culture, leadership, or even implementing Scrum as a whole? We customize selected training to specifically address your needs and concerns.

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Consulting and coaching for management

From one-time personal consultations to ongoing group management advisory sessions.

  • Defining the problem
  • Analyzing successful and unsuccessful cases
  • Creating tailored solutions
  • Guiding the step-by-step development of your organizational culture through expert consultancy

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Coaching for teams

  • Crafting a unified vision and purpose
  • Identifying issues
  • Fostering a sense of responsibility
  • Rallying the team
  • Improving communication with the clients
  • Fostering a culture of nonviolent conflict resolution
  • Boosting motivation
  • Mastering out-of-the-box brainstorming
  • Improving inter-team communication
  • Refining client interactions

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Agile/Scrum audits

Facing negative feedback from stakeholders and need to address it? Before treating ‘unhealthy’ processes, a diagnosis is crucial.

  • For coowners
  • For top management
  • For risk managers
  • For change agents

We’ll analyze your Agile practices, assess process effectiveness, identify bottlenecks, and prioritize challenges and goals to provide a targeted solution.

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Transformation

  • Does your company need it?
  • If yes, in what format?

We collaboratively develop a transformational roadmap with you.
Iteratively and incrementally implement changes, analyze results, and continue the journey.
Whether starting from scratch or picking up where others left off, we work alongside you, instilling healthy changes until your own team becomes advocates and agents of change.

  • Audit
  • Development
  • Organization
  • Trainings
  • Pilot team and next teams launch
  • Scrum Master on hire
  • Support
  • Product Owner coaching
  • Guidance

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Scaling

Together, we’ll choose the best scaling option or propose a custom hybrid.
We’ll guide you through the journey and provide support post-major changes.
We’ll develop processes for overcoming blockers.

  • SAFe
  • Nexus
  • S@S (Scrum at Scale)
  • Spotify model
  • LeSS
  • Hybrid

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How we can help

The instability of our times compels companies to increasingly invest in change management. Leaders navigate through painful changes that may also turn out to be unsuccessful. At BrainRain, we approach things differently.

  • We engage in open communication, identifying pain points.
  • Analyzing root causes, ensuring mutual understanding and perception.
  • Together, we build a collaborative action plan.
  • Iteratively fine-tune the initial round and gather feedback.
  • Reflect, conduct retrospectives, and initiate a new round if necessary.
Our methods are focused on helping clients break the cycle of failures. We know how to drive resilient, people-oriented changes, working with you comprehensively from strategy to implementation, ensuring success unfolds.

Our experience and impact

On market for 15+ years
Helped 40+ компаніям
Have partners in 12 countries
Conducted 45+ PI plannings
Launched 100+ teams
Conducted 300+ retrospectives
Have 50+ consultants
Had too much coffee during the time

Feedback from our students

Nick
about Scrum Injection with Bogdan Misyura

“This Scrum training has been actually a gem for me because I learned the basics of Scrum, of project and time management.”

Egor
about Scrum Injection with Bogdan Misyura

“I know that it will help me make my transformation from QA to Scrum Master”

Simbrella, the number 1 company in the world in launching mobile fintech services. 2015-2022. Azerbaijan.

Request: training and certification of company specialists, consulting and implementation of the Scrum framework, agile practices and culture Management 3.0

Implementation: the planned plans for creating highly effective Scrum teams, well-trained local Agile specialists and training certified Scrum Masters and Product Owners were fully implemented. Management 3.0 tools have been introduced, which have been present in the daily work of teams for years.

Darnitsa, pharmaceutical company. 2020-2023. Ukraine.

Request: Scrum Awareness, Improving Online Meeting Effectiveness for Distributed and Hybrid Teams

Implementation: A series of Agile and Scrum trainings were conducted. A custom course was created based on Atlassian practices for virtual meetings.

Result: successful implementation of agile practices, visual and AI tools for synchronous and asynchronous meetings with a noticeable increase in the quality of meetings, a reduction in the average duration and a decrease in meetings on the calendar

CS, product and service IT company. from 2022. Ukraine.

Request: implementation of Scrum and support of created teams.

Implementation: structural transformation of several separate functional departments of the IT department into a group of product- and client-oriented cross-functional teams. Successful launch of sprints with guaranteed product increments. Supporting Scrum Masters and the culture of subjectivity of teams.

888 Holdings Limited, an international betting and gambling company. 2019-2021. Gibraltar.

Request: practical implementation of agile processes, support for existing teams.

Implementation: Audit and implementation of Scrum and Kanban. Development of customized trainings for managers and individual teams. Coaching and mentoring of management, product owners and Scrum Masters. Creating effective interaction between product and development organizations.

Magento (Adobe), product and service e-commerce company. 2017-2019. USA

Request: implementation of Scrum and support of created teams.

Request: agile practice management

Implementation: agile coaching for CxOs, middle management, teams, engineers and the organization as a whole. Creation, protection and support of a team subjectivity model, effective interaction with outsource vendors and setting up agile delivery processes.

Outsourcing IT company TietoEvry 2017-2021. Finland-Sweden-Norway

Request: support of the training base and training of management and Scrum masters to work on the client side.

Implementation: development of proprietary training programs for each client. Implementation of Agile Delivery and Management 3.0 culture. Consulting, certification, support for 200+ managers and engineers.

Raiffeisen Bank, the largest Ukrainian bank with foreign capital. Since 2015. Ukraine

Request: training and certification of bank managers, product owners and scam masters at open and corporate events.
Implementation: 200+ participants in conferences, trainings and coaching sessions took part and/or passed exams and received international certificates in Scrum, SAFe, Agile, Kanban, Management 3.0, etc.

UZCard, national payment operator. 2021-2022. Uzbekistan.

Request: general audit of IT department processes, training and agile transformation project.
Implementation: a long series of online and offline measures, communication with top management and goal alignment. Development and defense of a transformation plan, conducting basic training for management and team leaders.

Frequently asked questions

What would you recommend starting with?

Start with the purpose: Why are we undertaking any transformation? Once the decision is made, begin by defining success criteria aligned with existing Agile principles and values.

How long can a transformation take?

The duration can range from 3 months to several years, depending on the organization’s current state, size, and the internal appetite for transformation among its members. The timeline is individual and directly correlates with achieving the metrics we jointly define with you.

How long to wait for initial results?

Results become noticeable as early as the first month.

What do we measure? How do we track progress?

We measure current value (CV), unrealized value (UV), time to market (T2M), and ability to innovate (A2I) – with a focus on quality.

Will the transformation not disrupt our business?

Our primary goal is to ensure that your business doesn’t lose control but, on the contrary, improves it. The larger the company, the more gradually we implement changes, guided by principles of safety and transparency.

And what if it doesn't work out? What does the consultant lose?

The consultant loses opportunities for a successful case, ongoing work, growth for their own consultancy, and reputation. Our goal is the success of the client, not the mere simulation of change. Our aim is an Agile-driven organization based on the principles of transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
From experience, it can be said that if the client genuinely desires change, together we can achieve it. Moreover, all changes are implemented iteratively, and the process can be halted at any moment.

What does post-active phase support look like, and how long does it last?

Typically, it lasts from 3 to 6 months.

Will the organizational structure change?

Most likely, yes. Agile transformation advocates for work in empowered cross-functional teams, connected both processually and through a product backlog. Therefore, most clients undergo changes in organizational structure, shifting from departments to teams.

Do you assist with scaling?

Yes, absolutely. We offer work with scaling frameworks such as SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, S@S, Spotify, and also develop hybrids customized to the specific business needs of the client.

What frameworks do you apply?

We utilize Scrum, Kanban, XP, Management 3.0, as well as the aforementioned scaling frameworks.

How do we determine if Agile is suitable for our company?

Before prescribing any solutions, we conduct a diagnostic assessment and provide our evaluation/recommendations. There are strong companies to which we may decline, identifying their resistance to change or the inability to implement these changes due to internal management conflicts. Conversely, there are small and relatively weak companies with high potential and a keen desire for change, making them an excellent foundation for Agile transformation.

If we choose a specific framework, will it solve everything? What is the ideal framework for our company?

We can determine this only after a discussion, understanding the company’s size, business nature, and the management’s inclination towards specific change options.

How to prevent employee turnover during transformation? What to do with people?

There’s a golden rule. During the transformation, we don’t guarantee the preservation of roles for each employee, but we ensure they retain their place. Some individuals may be resistant to change and may naturally exit the company. On the flip side, those genuinely excited about the changes will significantly enhance their individual and team performance, offsetting the departure of personnel not aligned with their values.

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