Digital Advisory Services
A team of Strategy and Technology professionals working to unlock your business opportunities. We work alongside you on your technology journey from idea creation through to supporting your platforms over the long term.
What we do
We ensure clients have a path through their digital journey. Before the way forward is clear we can help define the options and priorities, support strategy and roadmap development.
Our team works in both short-term engagements as well as supporting strategy implementation over the longer term.
Delivering Value
The Digital Advisory team brings objectivity, an external lens, and fresh thinking to complex situations.
Whether it is pathfinding, decision making, service and solution designing, or ongoing service delivery, the Cucumber team work as trusted advisors to your business.
The Cucumber methodology
At Cucumber we are always looking to build value for our clients across our engagements.
We use Design Thinking principles to align the right problem with strategy and only then get into solution design.
Strategy Development Services
Why clients use these services:
When you need to define what should be the focus for your business or department.
What should you invest in and why.
Define your Strategic drivers.
Understand your competitors.
What Strategy services look like:
Senior Stakeholder engagement, interviews & workshops
Investment logic mapping to support business case development
Strategic priority and roadmap development
What you get:
Reports outlining outcomes and recommendations
Discovery Services
Why clients use these services
Not all clients start with a defined project and discovery workshops help you identify the options and opportunities that will drive business value. By going broad with a wide set of options you ensure you don’t just jump on the first project you identify but understand the wider context of your business.
What the Discovery service looks like:
The topics covered can be tailored but almost always starts with identifying problem and opportunities.
Other discovery activities can include:
User & product and market analysis
Process Mapping
Mapping strategy to the opportunities
What you get
Includes pre workshop interviews, workshop and reporting of outcomes and recommendations
Roadmap Definition Services
Why clients use these services
One of the biggest decisions businesses make is the roadmap for change. Definition workshops help you prioritise the projects and activities to focus on.
How the Definition service works
Workshops and stakeholder engagement define where value lies and aligns with initiatives informing priorities.
Defining how to get started and the success metrics is the key to technology projects by defining:
Key activities (Epics or Milestones)
Key user decisions
User Personas
What you get
High level roadmap of initiatives and priorities
Outline on key requirements to get started, the measures of success for you and your users.
Solution Design Services
Why clients use these services
To get going on a project you need to capture the design and architecture covering infrastructure, data & integration, back-end systems and front-end interfaces.
How the Design service works
Workshops and stakeholder engagement get into the detail of how the user requirements inform the back-end systems design.
What you get
• Business rules and requirements
• User requirements and experience
• Technical Architecture
• Project Plans times and costs
Product Management Services
Why clients use these services
Cucumber doesn’t just build solutions, we partner with you over the long-term, so your platforms keep evolving and delivering value.
How the Delivery service work
Providing skilled analyst resources focused on features and quality during initial project delivery and then ongoing support of your platform.
Activities can be tailored, but can include:
Sprint Retrospectives
Quality sign off
Backlog Management
Training
Feature release management