HOW WE WORK: FROM THE CURRENT PICTURE TO A PRIORITIZED PLAN
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Diagnostic of the current situation
We assess your teams, processes, and architecture to understand where you stand today—not only the problem you have already identified, but also the risks and opportunities that are not yet visible from the inside.
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Identification of opportunities and risks
With that information, we pinpoint what is holding back value delivery, where business risks lie, and where there is an opportunity for improvement that no one is currently looking at.
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Co-creation of the roadmap
The result is not our report: it is a backlog of improvements and a roadmap that we build together with your team, prioritizing the actions that generate real and sustainable impact first.
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Initial leverage point
We help you choose where to start—typically the area where the pain is most evident or the business risk is highest—to generate a quick, visible win that builds momentum for the rest of the roadmap.
AI IN DIAGNOSIS
We evaluate how AI is currently being used in your organization.
We evaluate whether your software development team is already using generative AI, under what controls, and what risks or opportunities that way of working currently represents.
The roadmap may include concrete recommendations to safely integrate AI into your software development team—using test-first approaches, automated test harnesses, and pre-production validation—rather than letting each individual use it at their own discretion.
We call this approach agentic engineering: specialized AI agents working within a framework of clear rules and controls, rather than allowing AI to build unsupervised.
AI maturity assessment
We evaluate whether your organization is already using generative AI in software development—uncontrolled, with partial controls, or in a mature yet inconsistent manner—and we integrate it into the prioritized backlog of improvements, alongside teams, processes, and architecture.
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The Guarantee Behind Our Service: The Esfera Way
The diagnostic and the roadmap are built upon the same three pillars that guide the rest of our work: Esfera Way—product quality, delivery frequency, and business impact. The difference is that here, the outcome is a plan for you to achieve them, with or without us executing it.
Product Quality
The architecture and practices diagnostic identifies where quality is currently falling short.
Delivery Frequency
The process assessment pinpoints what is holding up each release, and why.
Business Impact
The roadmap prioritizes by risk and real impact, not by who shouts the loudest.
Shall we begin with the diagnosis?
Tell us which areas concern you today—together we will define the scope of the assessment, free of charge and with no obligation.
We evaluate the state of your product's quality.
We assess whether your organization has a unified testing strategy or if each team automates in its own way: what actually runs in the continuous integration pipeline versus what is still tested manually, what types of testing exist today (unit, integration, smoke tests, service mock/stubbing), and how reliable that coverage truly is in practice—not just on paper.
The roadmap can include concrete recommendations to consolidate automated testing practices within your organization—not as an isolated effort by a pilot team that fades away over time, but as a standard criterion integrated into the deployment pipeline and sustained independently of any single individual.
A real-world example of this assessment
During a quality consulting engagement for a prepaid healthcare provider, we identified that the continuous integration pipelines were not consistently running automated tests: the tests existed, but many were being executed manually, which undermined trust in the team's quality practices. We worked alongside two pilot teams for six months—conducting 13 training sessions and bi-weekly check-ins—until we integrated 7 distinct test types into the pipeline, ranging from unit tests to smoke tests repurposed for monitoring. The result: 14 concrete improvements driven and an automation practice that remained rooted in the team, rather than depending on our presence.
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IT Consulting: strategic diagnostic
If you don't know where to start improving, or need to understand how far your organization is from where you want it to be, this service is for you. We analyze your current situation—teams, processes, architecture—and co-create with you an impact-prioritized improvement roadmap.
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What is IT Consulting and when should you choose it?
IT Consulting is a diagnostic of your current situation in technology and how you work, resulting in a concrete backlog of improvements and a prioritized roadmap—not a report that gets filed away. It is the right choice when you need an external, objective perspective before deciding where to invest, when multiple areas demand attention at once and you don't know which to prioritize, or when you need data-driven justification for an investment decision in technology or your ways of working.
We don't sell a pre-packaged set of generic recommendations. We analyze your teams, your processes, and your enterprise architecture to identify real opportunities and risks, and we co-create with you the action items that will drive impact—always prioritizing the initial leverage point: a small but visible success that builds the momentum needed to scale the transformation across the rest of the organization.
At Grupo Esfera, we operate with end-to-end accountability: we are not an hourly development vendor waiting for instructions, but a team that understands and collaborates with business stakeholders, makes well-reasoned technical decisions independently, and commits to the final outcome—not just to completing tasks.
THIS IS NOT THE SERVICE FOR YOU IF...
This is usually the starting point before any of our services; depending on what we find, the roadmap may recommend Agile Coaching, Technical Coaching, Staff Augmentation, or Software Factory—there is no predefined predefined road.