What We Do

We maniacally focus on enabling engineers and leaders to deliver upon the fundamental Obligations of Engineering: Value, Quality, Speed to Value, making Commitments you can meet or beat, and using Data and expert judgment with courage and conviction.

We Can Help You and Your Organization…

Increase Speed to Value

Bring your ideas, products and features to market faster to deliver value to the customer and the company.

Attract + Retain Top Talent

It’s not only the Rock Star engineers that get to pick their place, it’s a seller’s market for everyone these days. Create an environment that people seek out.

Reduce Design Complexity

Design elegant software that is easier to code and maintain. You’ll save time, money, and long-term heartache.

Meet Every Deadline

Wanna make friends and influence executives? Meet or even beat every commitment you make.

Avoid Preventable Setbacks

Hey, life isn’t perfect. But let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot along the way. Make fewer preventable mistakes to keep moving forward.

Develop New Features Faster

Bring your innovative ideas and new features to life faster for competitive advantage. 

Eliminate Technical Debt

Stop paying interest on a debt you didn’t rack up. You can improve your speed without sacrificing quality.

Dramatically Improve Morale

Create a great work environment and watch productivity and innovation soar. It’s amazing the impact a happy team can have on the business.

Reduce Time Lost to Rework

Spend more time working for the future and less time looking in the rearview mirror fixing yesterday’s problems.

No matter your  role on the team, we can help.

For Elite Engineers

  • Do you sometimes feel that delivery deadlines are arbitrary?
  • Does it feel like you are always working from behind?
  • Do you spend waaaaay too much time reworking code and not enough designing new features?
  • With your last product launch, did you feel more pride or worry?
  • Do you feel like you could achieve much more if you didn’t have to clean up others’ messes?
    •  Does your gut tell you there has to be a better way?
    • Have you thought about quitting, but figure it’s all the same chaos no matter where you’d go?
    • Do you lack the time to think, design, and create?
    • Does it feel like Groundhog Day with each project, different team, same problems?
    • Does your work impact your personal life in a negative way?

Technical Debt

Improve your speed without sacrificing quality; tame technical debt for good.

Crushing Rework

Leave rework in your rear view and focus on the future and new features.

Commitment

Stop dreading deadlines. Make commitments you can meet or beat.

Exceptional Engineer

Master the X-Factors of Commitment, Quality, Value, and Culture. 

For Leaders

  • Are you ever frustrated by the collapse of your best-laid plans?

  • Would your daily stand-up sound like a comedy routine if it weren’t so sad?

  • Do you constantly feel the pressure from both ends of the organization?

  • Do you walk on eggshells around the team, careful not to set off a ticking time bomb?

  • Does it feel like you’re holding the team together with scotch tape and bubble gum?

  • Do you see the occasional glimmer of hope when things go just right and you deliver something pretty cool?

     

    • Does it feel like you will never get out from under your technical debt?

    • Are you squeezed between holding the team accountable and keeping them from quitting?

    • Do you feel that the team is lacking the necessary soft skills?

    • Are you jaded to all the prior improvement efforts that resulted in only marginal changes?

    • Does your gut tell you there has to be a better way?

Exceptional Leader

Engineering leadership is not for the faint of heart.  Answering to senior executives for late projects, budgetary overruns, and customer quality issues causes all of us to lose a little sleep. We can help.

Exceptional Teams

At Exceptional Difference, we know that highly performant teams are the difference between success and failure.  We also know that exceptional teams don’t just happen.  

Exceptional Engineering Experience

An exclusive, elite program that enables leaders and engineers to master the X-Factors of Commitment, Quality, Value, and Culture. 

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Crushing Rework Experience

Gain a deep understanding of quality management for high-tech systems development and an action plan to successfully implement them for immediate impact. 

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Technical Debt Experience

This is an immersive and highly collaborative workshop and training experience for elite engineers and team leaders looking to crush technical debt within their organization for good.