The missing link in your planning projects.
Framing the roadmap with your business leaders, owning the product in front of the teams, or providing the consultants who build. Depending on where you stand, these three can be combined or taken separately.
Our services
Where we step in on a project.
Vision and framing
We set out the need with your business teams and turn it into a roadmap: scope, workstreams, sequence, effort and budget.
Product owner and solution expertise
A product owner who speaks both business and tool, writes the user stories, arbitrates the backlog and holds the quality of the build.
Delivery
Teams assembled to build, test, deliver and hand over, with a cost-to-expertise ratio we stand behind.
Vision and framing
Knowing what to build, and in what order.
We run requirement discovery with your business leaders, then turn the result into a readable, costed roadmap. This is the phase that determines the real cost of the project, long before the first line of model.
Where the tool has not yet been chosen, we run the comparison, including when it does not lead to Pigment.
- A map of current planning processes and their friction points
- Target scope split into workstreams, with what gets done and what waits
- Rollout roadmap, milestones and effort per workstream
- Budget estimate and a decision paper for your committee
- Solution comparison and support through the negotiation
- Target data architecture and prerequisites to clear before the build
Product owner and solution expertise
The role that is almost always missing.
A planning project rarely fails on technology. It fails when nobody holds the translation between what the business wants and what the tool does. This is the seat we occupy most often.
Runs the business workshops
They ask buyers, merchandisers and management control the right questions, and can spot a rule that will prove expensive.
Writes the user stories
Turns needs into testable stories with acceptance criteria, rather than specifications nobody reads twice.
Arbitrates the backlog
Decides what goes into the next release, and defends what does not. Often the most useful part of the job.
Tests the solution
Tests the model before the users do, with real data sets, and rejects what does not hold.
Prepares adoption
Trains the key users, writes the documentation that matters, organises the switch season by season.
Holds the relationship with the vendor
Escalates product limitations, tracks the roadmap, avoids the workarounds that turn into debt.
Delivery
The team that builds.
Teams set up to build, test and deliver, either alongside your own people or with full responsibility for the build. We are happy to compare our cost-to-expertise ratio with that of the large integrators.
Dedicated team
Model builders, data integration and a product owner, sized to the workstream to deliver.
Data integration
Connection to ERP, PLM, point of sale and data warehouses, including history migration.
Testing and go-live
Test sets on real data, key user training, a go-live organised season by season.
Run and handover
Model maintenance, change requests, and skills transfer to your internal teams.
When to call us
Three typical situations.
You are starting a project
The tool is chosen, so is the integrator, but nobody on the client side has the time or the experience to own the product. We take that seat, alongside you.
The project is stalling
The build is progressing but users do not recognise themselves in what comes out. We take the backlog back in hand and restore the translation.
The platform is live
The model is alive, change requests pile up, nobody arbitrates. We put the rhythm and the governance in place.