Aperture Health
Areas of Focus
XP Enablement
Lean Product Management Enablement
User Centered Design Enablement
Aperture Health, before its merger with Verisys, provided credentialing of healthcare providers, delivering their services to the providers directly or on behalf of state and federal healthcare programs.
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The Challenge
When Artium engaged with Aperture Health, Aperture had recently onboarded a group of new leaders whose mission was to transform the company’s technology org into an Extreme Programming (XP) shop.
Their current ways of working presented a handful of challenges that they hoped to address through this transformation, including siloed expertise, difficulties scaling their teams, and quality issues resulting from a lack of test automation best practices.
By partnering with Artium, Aperture saw an opportunity to move away from fragile, difficult to maintain software and transform into a high functioning product and customer-driven SaaS company.
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The Solution
Artium partnered with Aperture by embedding product, design and engineering practitioners within their teams. This approach allowed Aperture’s employees to learn new software development principles and practices through active participation in the process of delivering high quality software, resulting in a simultaneous increase in capabilities and development velocity.
These principles and practices varied by role and included the following:
Extreme Programming (XP) practices such as test-driven development (TDD), pair programming, and continuous integration to enable rapid, high-quality development.
Lean Product Management principles to help Aperture align product strategies with user needs while enhancing their strategic toolbox.
User Centered Design principles to revitalize the design culture by leading with user-centered design in product development.
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The Outcome
After 3 months of close collaboration, Aperture Health emerged as a more agile, customer-driven organization with improved software delivery and strategic alignment. The product team became highly capable at driving business success, while engineers and designers adopted practices that emphasized quality, collaboration, and user focus.