In today's fast-paced digital environment, businesses grapple with stringent application development deadlines and demands for innovation. Addressing these issues requires strategic pre-planning, dedicated resources, and a team of skilled professionals capable of compartmentalizing tasks and promptly responding to emerging problems. Hiring a full team for each new obstacle in the development process is not financially viable, and reassigning inexperienced or overburdened employees is not the optimal solution. The dynamic solution to this dilemma is the introduction of agile tiger teams. 

Unlocking the Potential of Agile Tiger Teams

Originating from the ideology behind the Apollo 13 mission, an agile tiger team is a structured group designed to compartmentalize and address project issues while adhering to budget constraints and client-set deadlines. Each member brings a distinct specialization. These can be cybersecurity experts, scrum masters, software developers or quality assurance specialists, just to name a few. Together, they form a cross-functional team that efficiently takes on critical projects for businesses. Upon task completion, two outcomes emerge: 

• On the Bench: Team members or entire teams find themselves in a state of anticipation on the "bench," poised for reassignment to another project. 
  
  
• Immediate Sequencing: Full teams or individual team members are quickly reassigned to the next project in a client’s sequence after task completion, ensuring a seamless transition. 

The "bench" serves as a strategic reservoir of skilled individuals ready to pivot to new projects swiftly. This dynamic approach ensures that teams remain agile, responsive, and aligned with the sequence of a client's projects, optimizing resource utilization. 

In-Depth Breakdown of Tiger Team Solutions: 

1. Resource Management

• Strategic Savings: Tiger teams eliminate the need for hiring full-cycle internal teams for each subproject, resulting in significant time and resource savings. 
  
  
• Efficient Deployment: Internal teams are spared from reassignment, ensuring a swift deployment process with minimal sourcing, vetting, and onboarding. 

Resource management lies at the heart of tiger teams' efficacy. By avoiding the traditional model of hiring entire internal teams for specific tasks, companies can strategically allocate resources and optimize operational costs. The streamlined deployment process ensures that projects progress seamlessly without interruptions caused by the reassignment of internal teams. 

2. Efficiency

• Specialized Task Completion: The specialization within tiger teams allows for rapid task completion, fostering an environment free from distractions.
  
  
• Collective Focus: The team's collective focus ensures agile development, expediting testing times and steering clear of the pitfalls of multitasking

Efficiency is a hallmark of tiger teams. The specialized skill sets of team members contribute to swift and focused task completion, promoting an environment where distractions are minimized. The collective focus ensures that each member contributes uniquely to the project's success, accelerating the development and testing phases. 

3. Rapid Deployment

• Agile Responsiveness: Tiger teams can be swiftly deployed to address new project needs without causing disruptions to internal teams. 

• Preventing Derailment: Skilled consultants on standby act as a preventive measure, ensuring that projects stay on track despite sudden shifts in priorities or talent shortages. 

Rapid deployment is a key strength of tiger teams. A team’s ability to quickly adapt to new project requirements without causing delays or disruptions sets them apart. The presence of skilled consultants ready to intervene prevents projects from veering off course due to unexpected priorities, ensuring a consistent and agile development process. 

Aditi Builds Tailored Tiger Teams

Aditi builds reliable and rapidly deployable tiger teams, serving as a trusted partner for organizations seeking premiere talent at every stage of the project cycle. Aditi's skilled tiger teams, led by business analysts and lead developers, act as liaisons between clients' business units and stakeholders. From initial planning to quality assurance testing, our teams include front end developers, backend developers, development operations engineers, and quality analysts. A  dedicated delivery manager also ensures ongoing delivery excellence, meeting all client expectations. 

Whether it's developing software applications, testing system functionality, or deploying artifacts, Aditi's tiger teams provide critical, time-sensitive project support that the world's largest organizations trust. Ready for unparalleled project support? Contact us today to get started.