Of course, you dont have to adopt agile development strategies to have challenges. Roundabout consultants has worked with a wide range of businesses in the ISP and high growth Internet space helping them mature existing business practices around infrastructure management.
The last 5 years have seen incredible developments in the OSS tools available to manage a business. We can help you review your existing team, tools and processes and help plan and implement a programme of change help an organisation mature its service functions.
Mature businesses make the leap into agile development to break the cycle of failure in large developments, or to leapfrog existing technologies. These business typically have extensive mature operational experience however these teams typically struggle to come to terms with the dynamic change to requirements for operational support that comes with agility.
Roundabout consulting is a dynamic team led by Tina Codlin and able to draw on a broad talent pool for the appropriate consultant for any particular project. The team has broad experience of designing, scaling and operating business and Internet infrastuctures for delivering diverse solutions for start-up and high growth business.
Founder and director of Roundabout Consulting Ltd, Tina has over 10 years banking sector experience, in business analysis and technology support and operations roles. A qualified ITIL practitioner, Tina focuses on change management and user acceptance testing of key business systems in Banking environments.
Trained as a software engineer, in the high availability world of traditional telecommunications (GEC Plessey Telecomms), Mike has spent over 20 years helping businesses mature infrastructure, operational teams and technology processes that deliver the right SLAs to allow businesses to develop unfettered during their high growth and consolidation phases.
Mike has operated in businesses including Woo Media, Claranet, Tiscali, NetBenefit, Redbus Interhouse, Redbus Netstream, Demon Internet and Compulink Information Exchange. Mike is currently helping an organisation going through the significant organisational change of divestment, working to separate from the parent company's infrastructure. He coordinates inhouse and outsourced devops capabilities delivering stabilisation and resilience improvements to the group of agile teams, deploying into multiple cloud environments through puppet.
Next available for major projects: 14th August 2012
In start-ups, infrastructure management is often initially necessarily neglected as premature optimisation. As the business grows structure, process and OSS (operational support systems) need to be introduced to ensure availability, recoverability and scalability are guaranteed. Roundabout Consulting has significant experience of delivering iterative, devops led, operational change which continues to empower development whilst slowly maturing the infrastructure practises to ensure stability and repeatabilty.
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