Services

Whether you're modernising a single system or transforming your entire organisation, we tailor our services to fit your goals. Learn how we work with you, the challenges we help navigate, and what your investment can unlock at every stage of your modernisation journey.


Approach

You can take an in-house, outsourced, local or overseas approach. Each has their own trade-offs and benefits. Over many years we've developed the following mix that we believe best serves Government and Enterprise.


People People

Engage our locally employed, cross-functional squads that are self-organising and empowered. Giving you a highly skilled team that you can enjoy collaborating with.


process process

Leverage Jidoka—‘automation with a human touch’—a software development methodology that enhances automation and quality. This reduces technical debt and unlocks the competitive advantage of continuous modernisation.


tools tools

Embrace your organisation’s technology standards and legacy systems, modernise them to the latest frameworks, languages, and cloud infrastructure. By modelling your system, we ensure greater control enabling continuous improvement and broad reuse throughout your organisation.


Scalable Solutions for Modernisation

Every organisation’s modernisation journey is different. Whether you're revitalising one product or scaling change across your enterprise, our service models are designed to grow with your needs. Here’s how we align teams, tools, and delivery methods based on your organisation's scale and goals.

Factors

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System Complexity

The intricacy of your existing infrastructure and the extent of required integrations.

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Project Scope

The breadth of functionalities to be modernised or developed.

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Team Composition

The expertise and size of the squad assigned to your project.

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Security & Compliance

Adherence to industry standards and regulations.

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Ongoing Support

Post-deployment maintenance and continuous improvement efforts.

Targeted Modernisation

For organisations seeking to develop a product.
Ideal when you're upgrading a single system or product—whether it's legacy software, a pilot platform, or a solution for a new business capability.

Service Overview:

  • One cross-functional squad with domain knowledge
  • Fast commencement and tight feedback loops
  • Best suited for modernising individual products or isolated business units
  • Leverages reusable components and existing infrastructure
  • Optional DevOps support for post-launch optimisation

Use this model when:
You’re modernising a specific product or system and want to regain control over how it's built and maintained. This model is ideal for projects with clearly defined goals, where a lean squad can deliver quick wins and lay the groundwork for future scalability.

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Example: Mustard Music modernised their legacy music management system.

Business Unit Modernisation

For organisations aligning technology with strategic operations.
Designed for transforming the software underpinning entire departments or business units, enabling scalable operations and continuous innovation.

Service Overview:

  • 1–3 squads collaborating across multiple streams
  • Emphasis on platform engineering and reusable component design
  • Enables governance, automation, and quality at scale
  • Team topologies used to divide platform enablement and product delivery
  • Strategic foundation for ongoing modernisation

Use this model when:
You're ready to unify systems across a business unit and need teams to work in parallel while sharing architecture and standards.


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The Business Unit Modernisation approach uses team topologies to divide into platform enablement and delivery teams.

Enterprise Modernisation

For enterprise-wide transformation across departments or divisions.
This service model supports federated delivery while establishing shared standards and centralised governance.

Service Overview:

This model is ideal when:
You need to balance central governance with divisional autonomy while driving innovation at scale.

  • Super squad model overseeing multiple teams (delivery, platform, domain)
  • Tailored to organisations with complex stakeholder environments
  • Tooling is white-labelled into your infrastructure
  • Common, shared, and unique component strategies enable reuse across departments
  • Establishes an organisational data warehouse for visibility and insights

Diagram of the Enterprise Modernisation projects

Enterprise Modernisation projects can create common, and share standards linked to an organisational data warehouse.

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