Our first order of business was to understand our partner’s goals and focus on learning as much as possible about their specific use cases for the Archer platform. Our senior colleagues conducted a thorough analysis of the company’s business challenges and needs.

To ensure the team’s expertise and the value of their work, we organized an internal Archer Training Program for each team member. After the training, each person had the experience and know-how to take on responsibility for at least one of the Archer modules currently used by our partner.

We also established an agile way of working by implementing a Scrum framework for the project and defined the processes, quality metrics and definitions of ready and of done together with our partner. As this was their first agile Archer project, we took great care to set up a future-ready work system that will bring quick and continuous results.

We collaborated on implementing the most viable solutions for enhanced time/cost-effectiveness and future readiness. Developing this digital solution included:

• Finding a suitable technical solution to help the company have a centralized overview of quantified ISCE data (e.g., IT Assets, Compliance Evaluations, Risk Analysis).

• Implementing a scalable future-ready platform to simplify the future development of any additional integration and interfacing.

• Enabling faster data processing by using RSA Archer in-depth functionalities such as Calculated Cross-Reference Fields, Archer Web Service & JavaScript-Based Data Feeds, JavaScript Objects.

• Improving the user interface and user experience on the platform.

• Taking end-to-end responsibility for the architecture, development, rollout, environments, and project monitoring.

As our collaboration continued, we established better trust and communication between the Accesa team and our partner’s stakeholders, as well as nurtured knowledge-sharing. This approach has steadily led to increased efficiency and collaboration, resulting in stronger expertise for the development team and value for the organization being delivered at a faster pace than initially forecasted.