Get more value flowing through your business
Assess your Workforce Alignment and Strategy Execution
Alignment is crucial to the growth of a business, yet many companies fail to provide their employees with an adequate working environment that fosters success. An employee needs to have a clear goal and understands the general direction, is enthused by and knows how they can contribute to the company's success. Whether it's via our initial assessment or our ongoing executive advisory service, we'll ensure that your strategies are correct and are being executed effectively.
Consultancy Services
Increasing the quality & productivity of technology teams
Our consultancy services are typically sought to help bring about improvements in Business Resilience and Agility realising Digital Strategies, DevOps transformations, Agile Adoption, modern Business Continuity Management and fundamentally increasing the quality & productivity of Product & Technology teams.
We provide high level business and strategy expertise, through to
hands-on mentoring and delivering of software solutions. Our preference is to work closely with a senior sponsor whilst providing expertise and bringing about change through '
doing ' the job with your existing workforce.
With the ability to assess the big picture and identify non-optimal setups, we work with you to map out a broad strategy considering technology, tooling, process, culture, how people are managed, the value chain from idea to completion and many other aspects. We use our own VFS Toolkit of proven models, approaches and 'starter kits' to provide just enough structure and order to complex and often overwhelming situations, whilst being able to adapt to your specific environment, capabilities and needs.
We specialise in bringing about improvements and change at the coalface, and firmly believe that this is where so many failed transformations and change initiatives don't adequately support, inspire and mentor their workforce. After all, this is where the value gets created. But we also know that it is the senior managers and leaders that often need the most support in order to bring about change and successfully continue with their day-to-day responsibilities.
This is why we also work with the management / leadership team and our experience means we are able to take much of the load off your hands when you want us to.
1 to 1 Mentoring & Coaching
Accelerating personal growth, performance and wellbeing
Be a better you. We offer executive, leadership and performance coaching for your employees.
More and more businesses are recognising the benefits of providing a personal performance coach or mentor to their employees. We have been providing Executive Coaching and advisory services for many years. Since winter 2020, after seeing for ourselves the business impact that effective coaching can bring, we have grown our mentoring and coaching practice to be able to support more individual sessions.
Read our short
blog post
, or head over to our Coaching site for more information and talk to our AI virtual assistant, Sylvia, for any queries you may have. But beware, she can be a little cheeky.
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VFS-Coaching site.
Interim Management, Fractional CTO & Directorship, N.E.D
Leading technology change
Our founder, Scott Potter, who has worked in senior positions is available to take on full time interim roles to help you improve productivity, quality, to restructure, to provide expertise in bringing about change, to help create a culture of Engineering Excellence, re-organise, develop career frameworks & job specs etc. Even though Scott has a wealth of experience at senior and exec level, he still practices hands on agile coaching, agile project management and mentors scrum masters, agile coaches and product owners because it's not only his passion but is a crucial set of skills that he loves to keep sharp.
Making companies successful and able to better leverage their technology teams, digital products and data requires a multitude of skills, experiences and approaches. Scott is one of that small group of Technology Leaders that possesses this ability.
Scott is still one of our team that provide reviews, audits and technical guidance for achieving successful Continuous Delivery. Being able to work across these different levels is what really helps bring about positive change, that remains.
Providing Consultants & Augmenting your Workforce
We can help bolster your teams with our Software & Test Engineers, Infrastructure & DevOps Enablement Engineers, Scrum Masters and Product Leadership, Product Management & Product Owners. We prefer to do this only when we understand your business and your needs after one of our senior consultants has been engaged with you for a number of weeks.
We have Principal Consultants covering all industries and tech, and a trusted network of associates that have worked closely with us and have demonstrated their high calibre expertise for many years.
Why use VFS for your extra consultants? Read more.
Our consultants bring VFS IP with them and are supported by VFS every step of the way. So don't hesitate to reach out and have a chat with us about this.
Our business model has always been to remain small and fully in control of the service quality we provide. We are known for our experience, expertise and passion. We will not risk that at any cost. As a result, we prioritise quality over quantity when it comes to augmenting your workforce with our consultants.
We Also Offer...
Workshops & Bespoke Training:
As part of a broader consultancy engagement where we bring about change by example , we can accelerate this by providing tailored workshops and training to target exactly what your organisation needs.
We have recently been asked to provide Training and Team Building Workshops for new clients, outside of our ongoing engagements that have been extremely well received. We have decided to offer these to everyone. More details of these courses can be viewed here.
Reviews and Audits:
General Technology, Software Engineering, Data, Data Architecture, lean, agile and DevOps reviews.
Accelerated HR & Departmental tools:
Using our Starter Kits and by working closely with our clients, we can accelerate the creation of your workforce development and training plans , career & competency frameworks and HR considerations that are generally needed to support agile transformations and successful adoptions.
A Small Range of Carefully Selected Products:
We are the sole European distributor of Victoria Labs' excellent agile products that provide simple but powerful interventions that can result in progressive and dramatic performance improvements.
