Unifying Tools in Software Engineering | Case Study

£2m+

Group saving on development tool licence costs

3 days → 3 hrs

Average deployment time for new EC2 instances

15%+

Build time reduction delivered

50%

Development lifecycle reduction targeted by the delivered roadmap

The opportunity

Fragmented tooling, slow progress, excessive cost

Address the lack of standardised tools and practices, to remediate fragmented efforts, slow progress, excessive development costs and minimal collaboration across the group.
Improve the group’s overall NIST score, promote secure coding, and implement DORA metrics so that delivery performance could be measured rather than assumed.

What we delivered

One marketplace, one pipeline, one set of metrics

Implemented a central marketplace for tooling across the group, saving in excess of £2m on licence costs by ending duplicated and overlapping purchases across operating companies.
Reduced build time by over 15%, with a roadmap leading to a reduction of over 50% in the development lifecycle.
Delivered an AWS EC2 automated build pipeline, reducing the average time to deploy over 100 new EC2 instances from three days to three hours.
Introduced DORA metrics, greatly improving the frequency of high-quality code reaching production and giving the group an objective measure of delivery performance for the first time.
Promoted secure coding practice as part of the standardisation, improving the group’s overall NIST score alongside the delivery gains.

The outcome

Reusability, measurability and a stronger security posture

Drove reusability and collaboration of code through the development lifecycle across the group, ending the redundancy that fragmented tooling had created.
Lowered the cost of development tools across the group, on a recurring rather than one-off basis.
Established the ability to measure and improve the quality and security of the code base across the group — the precondition for managing either.
Greater communication resulting in improved efficiency and further cost reduction, with a stronger security posture as a direct consequence of standardisation rather than a separate programme.

Group tooling marketplaceAWS EC2Automated build pipelineDORA metricsSecure codingNIST scoreAgile product-ledLicence rationalisation

Cloud Security & Software Engineering

Managed cloud security, secure DevOps and code control, CI/CD, technical modernisation and secure migration.

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Cyber & Information Security

CISO expertise, GRC and certification, security architecture, IAM and PAM, infrastructure and operational security.

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