Turn a promising concept into a working system with a Lean Lab
Many companies struggle to foster innovation within their existing teams. The challenge is usually cultural - how to marry the need for experimentation, freedom to "fail fast" and a creative license to throw away the "old ways of doing things" with compliance to corporate standards and security practices. Grid Dynamics has a service offering that helps companies try fresh ideas quickly outside of the corporate bureaucracy before bringing them in-house for productization once they have proved to be successful.
We call this program "Lean Labs", and it works like this: a dedicated, self-sufficient team staffed by Grid Dynamics engineers works on a customer problem with the client's subject matter experts. The team moves fast, uses the latest technologies and aims to solve the business use case to demonstrate measurable value to the business stakeholders. The project takes anywhere from 4-12 weeks and costs under $200K.
How Lean Labs work
Cross-functional team
Goal-oriented project
Fast business impact
Anatomy of a Lean Lab project
Client provides
- Business use case
- Success criteria
- Subject matter experts
- Access to data & related services
We provide
- Engineers
- Customer experience designers
- Product manager
- Agile delivery practices
Scope
- Timeline: under 3 months
- Scope: 1-3 use cases
- Feedback: bi-weekly demos
- Cost: under $200K
Deliverables
- Working demo
- Source code & documentation
- Retrospective / lessons learned
- Productization plan