The IT Factory

The IT Factory is a different type of software company, one that believes software development can be as efficient as a manufacturing factory and is laser focused on delivery of value back to the organization. This forms the foundation of our product management software as well as all of our development teams.

At The IT Factory, we operate in an extreme agile environment. We start by utilizing Story Mapping techniques to help define business needs and outcomes that will deliver maximum value to the organization. This happens in a transparent, collaborative environment with ALL team members at the table. As the story map is stabalized, work is performed in alignment with the map, with developers continously demonstrating their work as they progress.

We eliminate anything from our process which does not add value to producing a product, allowing our teams to deliver solutions at a much faster pace than other organizations. Our teams are also fully empowered to make their own decisions.

In The IT Factory, we also follow our own agile process we call Get “Stuff” Done (GSD). This modifies the typical agile Epic-Feature-Story structure. We start at the Product level, break the product into multiple product areas. Product Areas then contain Features which satisfy Business Needs. No more struggling with explaing what an Epic or Story really are, we use logical, business related terms which everyone understands for our process.