Same team. Better results.

Accelerating the development of your software hasn’t come without headaches. Including the challenges that arise with implementing the roadmap, improving development processes, leading people, and creating happy and productive teams that collaborate. A fresh perspective from the outside can help. It’s why Invisory exists.

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Jack Verhoeven 🤯

Data Scientist
Performance25%
Develop feature APP-2301
Prepare the release
Train Customer Success
Invisory

Julia de Vos 😟

Product Owner
Performance32%
Roadmap w/ Commercial
Fix CVE-2022-40769
Get agreement on spec
Invisory

Mike van Doorn 🙁

Software Engineer
Performance54%
Provide ‘dev support’
Sprint Planning
Sync with Mobile team
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Tessa Janssen 😐

Software Engineer
Performance38%
Chase Johan for input doc
Fix bug FNL-945
Prepare regulatory report
Run stakeholder workshop

Do you recognize these challenges in your software team?

Scalability and technical debt

Scalability and technical debt

The scalability of systems is reaching its limits. Technical debt affects team performance and value delivery to customers.

Pace of value delivery

Pace of value delivery

Developing and delivering new functionality takes a disproportionate amount of time, while the roadmap continues to grow.

Quality and consistency

Quality and consistency

Due to too many bugs and other quality problems, valuable time is lost in stabilizing the software.

Organizational design

Organizational design

Structures, processes, and ceremonies are no longer appropriate and limit agility, productivity, and customer value delivery.

Hiring and retention

Hiring and retention

Attracting and retaining technical and product management talent is difficult and limits the success of the organization.

Talent development

Talent development

To handle the growth of the organization, teams and Product & Tech leaders must accelerate their development.

Invisory elevates performance and builds winning software teams.

Our experts bring decades of agile software development experience and act as an extension of your product team using a rigorous, yet hands-off approach that allows you to increase value delivery and innovation.

Each engagement is customized to your development needs, challenges, and outcomes, as we deploy a proven process — using Advisory or Interim services. Our goal? To elevate performance, increase agility, reduce turnover, and build winning teams.

Advisory

Advisory

We come in as advisors to help your product and tech leadership, including the CTO, CPO, engineering managers, and product managers.

Interim

Interim

We come in as interim managers or coaches (full time or fractional) and support a team, a set of teams, or the entire development organization.

How we help

Identify key challenges and how to fix them.

Each context brings its own challenges that can be hard to see. These include improving software development and product management processes, leading people, redefining roles, and ensuring a collaborative culture. With our Product & Tech Assessment we interview your software team, analyze product and activity data, highlight challenges, and provide actionable steps to transform these into opportunities.

Take your team’s technical leadership to the next level.

We provide coaching, 1-on-1 sessions, and ongoing guidance for CTOs, engineering managers, tech leads, and team leads. Our work focuses on helping technology leaders grow in their current roles while also providing guidance on career pathing and development.

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Organize your team to reach tomorrow’s ambitious goals.

We reimagine your organizational structures from a socio-technical systems perspective to not only meet today’s needs but achieve your future goals. We teach the organization to gradually adapt itself to the product roadmap, customer value objectives, technical architectures, and the cognitive and social characteristics of software teams.

Elevate the skills and workflow of your software team.

We guide teams in their adoption of Scrum or Kanban and transform the way the team collaborates and performs. Within a few months, we create a collaborative culture focused on agility, productivity, and business outcomes.

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Increase consistent value delivery.

We optimize your organization’s software development lifecycle based on proven agile and DevOps principles and methods. We also assist teams in designing and continually improving standards, procedures, and workflow automation related to e.g. roadmap planning, release and incident management, and documentation.

Build your in-house software team.

We help your startup build an in-house software development team from the ground up. Whether starting from zero, transitioning from outsourced development, or sourcing additional support through an external partner — our experts help create the organizational chart, curate talent, manage interviews and optimize team roles based on your objectives.

Identify key challenges and how to fix them.

Each context brings its own challenges that can be hard to see. These include improving software development and product management processes, leading people, redefining roles, and ensuring a collaborative culture. With our Product & Tech Assessment we interview your software team, analyze product and activity data, highlight challenges, and provide actionable steps to transform these into opportunities.

Take your team’s technical leadership to the next level.

We provide coaching, 1-on-1 sessions, and ongoing guidance for CTOs, engineering managers, tech leads, and team leads. Our work focuses on helping technology leaders grow in their current roles while also providing guidance on career pathing and development.

Read more about coaching

Organize your team to reach tomorrow’s ambitious goals.

We reimagine your organizational structures from a socio-technical systems perspective to not only meet today’s needs but achieve your future goals. We teach the organization to gradually adapt itself to the product roadmap, customer value objectives, technical architectures, and the cognitive and social characteristics of software teams.

Elevate the skills and workflow of your software team.

We guide teams in their adoption of Scrum or Kanban and transform the way the team collaborates and performs. Within a few months, we create a collaborative culture focused on agility, productivity, and business outcomes.

Read more about team development

Increase consistent value delivery.

We optimize your organization’s software development lifecycle based on proven agile and DevOps principles and methods. We also assist teams in designing and continually improving standards, procedures, and workflow automation related to e.g. roadmap planning, release and incident management, and documentation.

Build your in-house software team.

We help your startup build an in-house software development team from the ground up. Whether starting from zero, transitioning from outsourced development, or sourcing additional support through an external partner — our experts help create the organizational chart, curate talent, manage interviews and optimize team roles based on your objectives.

People and processes drive performance. Period.

Performance

Assess and elevate performance Assess and elevate performance

Clarity is a competitive advantage. We’ll assess your team’s productivity and performance, and identify the bottlenecks to output, growth, value delivery, and innovation.

Define goals and roles Define goals and roles

We reimagine your organizational chart using quantitative and qualitative data, and ensure every team member is clear on their specific roles and the goals to perform at their best.

Upgrade processes Upgrade processes

We design, implement, and manage your software engineering processes and structures based on your outcomes and KPIs. While too many processes can stifle innovation, we ensure teams have enough of the right processes to ensure smooth operations.

CTO support CTO support

We help the CTO clear off the people and process management they’ve added onto their plate, so they can focus on what they do best: drive the technical side of the business.

Train contributors Train contributors

We train and develop team members, contributors, and managers to ensure they work together to stretch beyond their current abilities and overcome previous limitations.

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Invisory’s work resulted in a scalable organization with empowered and high-performing development teams.

Thijs Megens

Co-Founder & Head of Product

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We’re not simply advisors. We’ve built tools to upgrade the performance of software teams.

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Besides Invisory, our team has leveraged decades of product and engineering management experience to build TeamLiftr. It provides software teams with a structured framework for improving performance and achieving superior results.

Invisory’s processes include TeamLiftr. Teams use it to develop new ways of working that maximize their ability to maintain a thriving software engineering practice.

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TeamLiftr TeamLiftr

Recent client cases

Recent client cases

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Passionate about engineering management? Let’s chat!

We work with a network of freelance product engineering experts who value working with ambitious brands, career flexibility, and attractive compensation.

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Clients

Clients

When you work with us at Invisory, we’ll provide you with opportunities to work with ambitious brands so you can focus on doing your best work.

When you work with us at Invisory, we’ll provide you with opportunities to work with ambitious brands so you can focus on doing your best work.

Culture

Culture

We celebrate an innovative, human-centered culture that values simplicity, transparency, and treating each team member as an individual.

We celebrate an innovative, human-centered culture that values simplicity, transparency, and treating each team member as an individual.

Compensation

Compensation

Due to our market expertise and track record, you’ll receive competitive compensation with short and long-term engagements.

Due to our market expertise and track record, you’ll receive competitive compensation with short and long-term engagements.

Let’s talk about the possibilities

Hello, I’m Tijmen. During the last years as a software engineering manager and consultant, I’ve worked with many organizations on their software development initiatives. We see that teams struggle with the same challenges to increase their performance.

It’s why we founded Invisory. Today, our team of experts brings deep knowledge of both the opportunities and challenges of agile software development coupled with a strong understanding of the technological state of play. Clients engage us to build development teams from scratch, improve existing teams, or bring an entire product organization to the next level.

When partnering with us, you can expect increased productivity, improved business outcomes, happier teams, and reduced employee turnover. No matter the size of your team, we help you get the most out of them while empowering them to do their best work. As a first step, click the button below to schedule a call with the team. We’d love to learn more about your unique needs and goals.

Tijmen Kip

Managing Partner Invisory

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Getting an outside perspective on our software development gave us a lot of clarity.

Marvin van Dongen

CEO

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Your questions, answered

Invisory’s advisory and interim services are designed for ambitious organizations of all sizes who want to maximize the value and efficiency of their team. We upgrade your processes, ensure your team is focused on work that drives results, and build collaborative engineering cultures that push the needle on software development.

We’re glad you asked. We don’t work with companies who have been mistreating their development team and want us to quickly “fix” the environment. We work with clients that have realistic expectations and are willing to invest the time, energy, and resources to create long-term progress that is felt across their entire organization.

You’ve already tried, right? Often, our clients have grown in spite of their challenges and an outside expert provides much-needed perspective. Every day, attracting and retaining top tier talent becomes harder. Our team deploys an approach to ensure everyone feels comfortable, excited and empowered. Most importantly: we support you in finding a long-term, definitive solution as part of our engagement.

We get to know them, their needs, frustrations, and the work they do best. This builds trust and allows them to see our strategies with their best interests in mind. By upgrading processes and helping them get clear on how their role contributes to short and long-term vision, we help your engineering or software development team focus on what they do best.

Great question! It depends, as each engagement is bespoke and customized to your needs and there is no “one-size-fits-all”. With that said, the next step is to click the button on this page and let us know about your organization’s needs.

Using our processes, we help your team work more efficiently by getting clear on key activities and upgrading their processes. This alone is invaluable and boosts the morale of every member of your team. Including yours.

Elevate your software team and take your business' growth to new heights.

With our track record, we often book up in advance and have a waiting list — so don’t wait and book your discovery call today.

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