XoJom

XoJom leads Lean-Agile Implementations in the Defense Industry.

2012/04/21

Hear what the sponsors of the conference had to say. Note that most are in the tools selling business exempt for XoJom Corporation

Feel feee to download  a copy of the brochures XoJom made available at the “Agile in Defense” conference.

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We are Lean-Agile enablers.

2012/04/13

How we can help you.

We help organizations implement Lean-Agile in a project, program, and portfolio context.

We apply it as organizational framework to increase ROI and to get things done. We do not limit it to the IT world because we are not Agile purists. We are Lean-Agile pragmatists. We scale it beyond the typical domains, we scale it across the value stream, and we scale it to the program and portfolio levels. We use it for product development, supply chain management, program and portfolio management, software, hardware, firmware development, sales, marketing, operations. You name it. Our track record is solid.

We use it in the commercial space as well as in highly regulated environments ranging from utilities to the defense industry. We are the leading Lean-Agile provider for PMI worldwide and we help clients with program budgets between $ 5 Million and $150 Million and beyond. We teach Lean-Agile (www.theagilepmp.info and www.pmi-acp.com and www.pmi.org/agile) but primarily help our clients execute on-site, hands-on. Our training is a result of hands-on implementations during the last 7 years. We’ve trained thousands of team members and stakeholders in public and corporate settings. We trained and coached teams and helped clients execute hundreds of programs all across the globe. Our formulae is simple:

LEAN + AGILE + Solid PROJECT, PROGRAM, and PORTFOLIO management = Increased ROI through innovation, reduced cycle times, effective and lean operations.

Please contact me directly at Karl.Muenchow@XoJom.com if you are interested in Lean-Agile training, pilots, rollouts, or Lean-Agile enterprise implementations. Let’s talk. Our office number is 770.281.8750 or call me directly at 706-983-0354.

Karlheinz Muenchow
Founder and President, XoJom Corporation

We are Lean-Agile pragmatists, not Agile purists.

Managing uncertainty and change in complex projects and programs calls for balancing defined and empirical process control. Lean-Agile provides the framework to implement that balance. Hands-on experience with complex systems projects and programs taught us that effectiveness in the Real World requires to use of all tools available – flexible, traditional, lean AND agile. We teach and compare all approaches and inspire organizations to move towards agility in a balanced and common sense way.  It is smart to know agile and what it can do, as well what it can not.

We use Agile beyond Software/IT…way beyond!

Our expertise is centered around complex systems projects and programs. Optimizing the whole, we are using Lean and Agile in a project, program, and portfolio context. As a PMI R.E.P, we focus on balance and integration from a process perspective while helping our clients move to agility from an organizational perspective. Our models are based on agile methods such as Scrum and DSDM, augmenting the software-centric elements with sound project management practices aligned with lean and agile values. (For example: Release planning and potential shippable increments make sense for software development. However, this may not be the appropriate paradigm in non-software centric  dominions.  In very complex systems projects and programs, Rolling Wave planning and progressive elaboration towards milestones of economic value are more suitable practices. Our lean-agile models are based on these ideas (and used successfully at companies across the globe).

We don’t sell tools.

Your successful Lean-Agile adoption is our only objective.

We are business and project management oriented.

Agile focuses on teams and that is a good thing. While team training and coaching is a major part of all Lean-Agile rollouts we lead, we acknowledge that solid business needs more than happy employees. We help our clients scale agile across the value-stream to manage a wide variety of domains (development, services, marketing, sales, operations, deployment, systems integration, and others). We provide guidance on how to best scale agility to the program and portfolio level. Organizational agility is a goal of many our clients expanding agile beyond teams and projects.

We are effective.

We don’t believe that embedding ourselves into your organization and sending in the coaches and consulting troops is the answer to agility. Agility is all about effectiveness and simplicity. Our business model is founded on these principles. Since 2007, we’ve applied and continuously refined our rollout model to be cost efficient, extremely effective, and focused. It cuts interruption to your ongoing projects to a minimum. We do so at a fixed cost eliminating any services or interruption you simply don’t need. We’d be happy to provide a quote.

We have the track record you are looking for.

Since 2007, we have been guiding clients in Europe, Brazil, India, and all across the US in the successful adoption of agile using our refined approaches and models. Our clients develop machines, motors, turbines, smart-grid components, wireless devices, medical devices, controls, video and broadband systems, and telecommunication equipment. They manage complex systems development and/or systems integration projects and programs.  In short, we focus on successful Lean-Agile adoptions for clients managing very complex, non-software centric products or systems programs with extensive hardware development and integration components.

We are agile.

We are based in Atlanta,GA in close proximity to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. This key hub supports our goal of helping clients across the globe when they need us.

Yes! Lean-Agile is for Your Company

2011/10/15

Real World PMI Chapter Training

2011/10/14

Our Clients Are Talking

2011/10/01

I had worked at IBM for 20 years using all types of hardware processes and procedures. It took me a while to map the concepts to what I had originally been trained in . But after reviewing the materials and listening to Karl’s lecture, it became apparent that AGILE would have been the best method for 90% of my projects.

Raymond Isler, Executive Director of Programs (Elect) of the Piedmont Chapter of the Global Project Management Institute.

Lean-Agile Executive Overview: Getting started

2011/10/01