Why a Consulting Firm Does Agile Development: Power DX through Consulting, R&D, and Development
summary
BlueGrid is a point-level electricity demand-forecasting platform run by a consulting firm that combines consulting, R&D, and software development. The talk explains a recurring “speed gap” where a roughly ten-person dev roster is slowed by consultants and overlapping roles, and describes remedies: replacing frequent synchronous check-ins with weekly review meetings and migrating from Jira to Linear to simplify tooling, clarify ticket updates, and reduce stalled tasks while better aligning consulting and R&D outputs with delivery.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:32Mitsubishi Research Institute
- 5:19Blue Grid platform
- 7:05Consulting vs development speed
- 9:35Multi-role workload challenges
- 11:17Agile improvement approaches
- 13:45Recruitment and team strengths
- 15:11Agile and consulting synergy
- 16:14Closing and collaboration
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