Since 2013, Kingsmen Software has been tackling complex problems using a strategy known as design thinking that gets teams to empathize (learn the real challenges of the customer), define the problem, brainstorm a solution, create a plan and test that idea seeking feedback from others. Using this approach, the company had found success in developing solutions and advice on how their customers can be more agile and lean. Scrum sessions and visual collaboration meetings were Kingsmen’s bread and butter, but the company found it challenging to keep remote teams as equally engaged.
As a tech company that deals with many enterprise-level firms that often have multinational locations, it found that sometimes sharing ideas with remote teams wasn’t easy. Sure, you could put up sticky notes on a scrum board, but how do you get remote teams to engage on the same level as those in the scrum room? How do you also reduce the amount of time spent transcribing and distributing what’s on the sticky notes?
As agile practitioners, Kingsmen wanted to radically affect the efficacy of scrum sessions by finding a visual collaboration tool that could help everyone get on the same page. It wanted a solution that it could leverage to further its agile ethos that’s about getting ideas displayed, shared and worked on.
Kingsmen wanted to focus on agility where it matters most - at the point of execution, during brainstorming sessions, or during interfaces with clients. Given that all of these opportunities were important to Kingsmen, it knew that unless these collaboration points were managed as a network that they would encounter inefficiencies. As a result the startup turned to T1V when it discovered ThinkHub Agile
“The ThinkHub tool really resonated with us because of the type of work we do being an agile operating organization,” says Kelley Horton, Chief Agility Officer at Kingsmen Software. “Seeing the screen for the first time was exciting because we can interact with it…The first time I saw ThinkHub I knew it could be a game changer for the way we do things in our space, in agile development.”
ThinkHub Agile is a suite of digital tools that enhance lean and agile collaboration at all levels. In other words, it allows cross-functional teams to collaborate in a way that allows agile, lean and design methodologies to flourish. As a software-based visual collaboration tool, the technology gracefully adapts to the changing needs of software (think the emergence of BYOD, for example) and can display on any screen, no matter the size.
Now instead of a giant scrum wall, there’s a large-format touch screen that gives teams plenty of space to put up virtual sticky notes, write notes, sketch designs, upload different forms of media and present ideas.
To learn more about ThinkHub Agile, and to see the software in action, visit us at Southern Fried Agile in Charlotte, NC.
We also invite you to view the case study video at t1v.com/ThinkHub-Agile