Engineering

We provide agile and multi-disciplinary engineering teams to support you in developing products and services. Our engineers’ specialisms mean we can support a range of digital work, while also adapting to changing deadlines and project needs.

Both the public and private sector turn to us for help with complex and ever-changing IT estates. As a result, we have unique experience in using agile delivery processes and techniques to support and improve digital services.

Accelerating transformation to deliver better project outcomes

We help you pick up speed by introducing lean and agile ways of working to your business. This can include iterating and integrating relevant methodologies into your existing services, or building new services using Agile delivery methods.

To do this, we can:

  1. Provide individual digital specialists to support your team

  2. Build entire teams to deliver specific projects

In addition, we work with a wide range of budgets on flexible or fixed statements of work (SOWs).

Why work with Lithe engineers?

Broad range of services. Our services range from developing large-scale data engineering, analysis, and machine learning pipelines to providing dedicated data platforms and software development teams for front, back-end and middleware. 

Transforming Capability. We help to uplift the capability of your organisation through agile ways of working and off-the-shelf agile delivery teams.

High Quality Teams. Our clients often require highly competent, specialised teams to rapidly mobilise. Providing teams that can handle end-to-end delivery of the full product life-cycle has since become our speciality. 

User-focused. No guesswork here—we gain data and feedback from users to inform our work and get high-value outcomes faster. Our processes include: 

  • Usability testing

  • Accessibility testing

  • 1-to-1 interviews (structured/semi-structured)

  • Focus groups

  • Observation/contextual enquiry

  • Interactive User Journey workshops

  • UX and UI Workshops

Engineering and Technology

How we use technology to make products and services truly accessible

Lithe Engineering prides itself on having an inclusive focus. From end-users to internal users, everything we create must be accessible to the right people. As a result, we integrate accessibility features into all of our products and digital services. 

To help achieve this, we’ve spent the last decade building expertise in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and robotic automation. The Kaizen Mindset is our foundation for everything we do: user-centred, systemic improvements are baked into our processes.

Project delivery services from agile specialists

While our parent company Lithe Transformation supports the transformation of divisions and teams, Lithe Engineering focuses on project delivery. 

This can include working on design sprints, creating minimum-viable-products and developing a clear product vision. We also assist with user research, user design, product design, delivery management and development & testing. 

Delivery methods

  • Customer Research and Data Gathering

  • Customer Problem Statements or ‘Problems to Solve’

  • Risks Awareness and Categorisation

  • Develop Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

  • Product vision workshops

  • Collaborative sessions on building vision with leaders & team involved

  • Focus on differentiating between company vision and mission statements

Approach

  • Collating information on customer needs, problems to solve, risks, business needs based on techniques like Jobs-to-be-done and empathy mapping.

  • Objectives & Key Results workshops (OKRs), training and co-creation

  • Use of product strategy techniques like Jobs-to-be-done and impact mapping

  • Developing a list of hypotheses and experiments or lean initiatives

A 4-phase process for creating successful products and services

To help ensure your project delivers the business value you want, we work to validate assumptions and gain feedback in four stages.

  • Discovery phase, where we gain feedback from focus groups

  • Alpha release, where we launch the product to a small group of real users and gain initial feedback 

  • Beta release, where we launch to a larger group and monitor the use of the product or service and make further adjustments

  • Live phase, where we launch to the world and continue evolving the product/service through larger feedback loops.

As your delivery partner, we can assist in individual steps of this process, or assist you from end to end.

What locations can we work in?

Our teams and specialists can work both onsite and offsite in the UK EMEA, LATAM and India.