About Zühlke

Zühlke (www.zuehlke.com) is a leading technology and consultancy company providing bespoke software solutions, product innovation and management consulting. We enable our customers to successfully implement their ideas with processes, products and services that set new standards in reliability and performance. With teams in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom we like to stay close to our customers. Employing around 350 staff, we've generated revenues in excess of Euro 43 Million in 2009.

Agile Software Development @ Zühlke

Zühlke's Agile Practice enables you to meet the need for flexibility and rapid response by teaching your team to make use of lightweight software development processes and supporting tools. Agility in IT is achieved by a Scrum based lightweight software development processes and making use of supporting tools. Zühlke enables you to deliver high quality software and satisfy management return on investment requirements measuring quality, cost, time, and functionality.

Major Area of Expertise at Zühlke

  • Agile Process Consulting – Process consulting, design and implementation
  • Design of tailor-made development processes for your company
  • Change management of organizations towards lean and agile
  • Agile Skills Training

We support you in

  • Agile management practices: Coaching of Scrum Master, Product Owner and software developers in the arts of inspect and adapt, of agile architecture and agile implementation, continuous improvement
  • Agile software engineering best practices: Continuous integration, configuration management, issue tracking, build systems, test automation, metric reporting, and supportive tooling
  • Team development: We enable your IT teams to become self-organized and learning oriented.

Team development with Zühlke

Zühlke's training approach includes standard public courses, customer specific in-house courses and workshops and coaching. Our trainer team is made up of highly qualified experts who spend 80% of their work time amassing project experience, which they then pass on to your team. We gear our program of courses to what customers want and constantly update it.

Team Enabling provides support to a project team in the combined form of customized courses and coaching during a project. As a result, the project team obtains knowledge and the practical experience it needs. The coach gives the project team on-the-job training and conducts regular reviews. He teaches them the fundamentals and methodology as well as passing on to them his experience from other projects. The team receives expertise for the specific project, practical application of this expertise is promoted and the software development process is improved by the methodological support.

Project examples

Internet Data Safe – agile and innovative

DSwiss AG has launched the world’s first Internet data safe with the unique supplementary data inheritance function. Zühlke developed the concept of usability and produced this top-quality solution. See more on http://www.datainherit.com/

Agile Enablement for Fund Managers

Through carefully tailored training, coaching and mentoring Zühlke significantly enhanced the delivery capability of a major fund manager. The development cycle was shortened, quality improved and project management enhanced. Genuinely collaborative, cross-functional teams were formed for the first time. All involved employees appreciated agile development and were prepared to manage the changes required in their business.