Modern Engineering & Product Development
Driving social mobility through continuous deliveryThrough ethical, managed agile teams and executive coaching we will deliver your strategic objectives through iteration, learning and feedback.
Our Modern Engineering Practice Provides High End Consulting, Innovation and Software Engineering Services
Modern Engineering Core Services
Software Engineering Capability Assessments & Reviews
Consultant Led Assessments
Led by extremely experienced engineering directors and seasoned delivery experts, we perform short & sharp, or long & hard, reviews of your current end-2-end SDLC capability. For organisations of all sizes and maturities.
On-Shore Software Teams as a Service
Fully Managed Agile Teams
We deploy complete, onshore agile development teams to work on your specific build. Managed and overseen by our Modern Engineering practice these teams have highly skilled leadership combined with early career members to achieve a balanced cost.
Product Design & Innovation
From Business Idea to Prototype
Our product and innovation experts combine customer led design thinking with product design and development skills. We’ll help take your original idea through to prototype and beyond.
Fully Managed Teams-As-A-Service
We provide fully managed, ethical agile teams to deliver your strategic objectives.
Our cross-functional teams can be tailored to meet your need and context providing a highly disruptive new approach to software development and consultancy, we provide:
1. A credible alternative to offshoring
Our unique, transparent ‘team’ rates keep costs down with the added benefit of local talent, improved communications, happier peers and closer engagement through live on-site demos. With our adaptable capacity model, you can scale teams up or down without losing valuable domain knowledge.
2. A sustainable seed team for start-ups
We want start-ups to stand on their own two feet which is why we start with an exit strategy. We help you build products, measure quality and learn, while building your future team. Your IP, your technology choice, your documentation, your domain knowledge, your future.
3. Creating Career Opportunities in Technology
We create Software Developers and QA Engineers through The S&A Academy’s Elite Technology Apprenticeship Programme.
We can then provide engineers that elusive commercial experience in our managed teams while providing our clients free additional team members.
Product Development
Iterating towards outcomes
Social Mobility
Creating opportunities in tech and changing lives.
Agile Delivery
Continually delivery and learning
Software Craftmanship
With TDD, XP and SOLID principles.
DevOps
Deliver value with CI/CD
Transparent and Flexible
A blended rate with the ability to scale up and down.
How Do Our Fully Managed Development Teams Beat the Offshore Competiton?
In a tough economic climate, our blended teams of experienced talent and junior developers enable us deploy high end teams at an offshore-busting price point.
We are experts in delivery, helping you bring delivery back in-house and put strategic outcomes in your own hands.
Practice Director
Modern Engineering & Product Development
David Igoe
A senior technology leader, with over a decade of development experience and decade as a leader, most recently as Director of Engineering at AO.com.
Huge advocate of servant leadership, customer happiness and continuous improvement.
I organise the Manchester tech institution that is the Tech Leads North West meetup. Providing leaders with the skills to have better conversations and build better teams.
Qualified Executive Coach providing pro-bono support for start-ups and C-Level executives as part of Mentoring Club.
We will build an engineering capability and culture that you can be proud of!
Our blended squads consist of senior engineers, that know what good looks like, working alongside extensively trained junior engineers to iteratively deliver value for your organisation.
All our junior engineers have been trained in our industry leading S&A Academy and have been trained by on XP practices, TDD, BDD, SOLID principles, supported with a foundation in leadership and management combined with hands-on experience across multiple clients.
Sound interesting?
Let’s talk about cost-effective software delivery.