Freeport Metrics, an American-Polish software consultancy, was growing faster than its quality function. Six concurrent client projects, no shared processes, and rising defects.
- Diagnose
- 4 QA specialists, no standardized processes, no centralized knowledge, no visibility across 6 concurrent projects. Defects climbing with every hire.
- Design
- Built the infrastructure before scaling the headcount: centralized tribal knowledge, designed a competence matrix, stood up a portfolio-wide dashboard. Replaced feedback with feedforward sessions.
- Measure
- Defects down 50%. Team scaled to 16+. Team-initiated improvements up 30%. Over 20 process changes shipped through retrospectives.