For any business leader within a development agency, one of the toughest juggling acts is how you review your teams output while also reporting to your clients. Whether that means you’re a CEO, CTO, Architect, Product Owner or Project Manager; Alongside all the day-to-day of planning new product features, dealing with bugs or optimising your clients product, you then also have the constant concern and questions around security.

This often means one of the 3 areas of your responsibility suffers from lack of attention;

• Reviewing project status and managing team priorities
• Reporting and client communication
• Winning and onboarding new business

These 3 critical areas are challenging enough for agency leaders managing four or five large projects. But they only get multiplied when you are managing multiple projects for clients alongside diverse development teams, often split between in-house and out-sourced.

The fact is, is that managing multiple client projects simultaneously presents a formidable challenge for development agencies. Ensuring each project’s codebase is secure, up-to-date, and efficiently managed requires a sophisticated blend of technology and strategy.

Unfortunately across the wide range of tools on the market currently, spanning the likes of code management, hosting, project management to security scanning - all of them are very disparate and lack advanced and easy to access integrated reporting. This means agency leaders end up wading through multiple tools, code repositories and servers in order to try and access the quick information they want in order to either review work or report on output.

The following playbook has been put together by our founders, Mark Purdy and Stephen Gray, who faced these same challenges while running a successful development agency. The tips and solutions provided are designed to help senior management optimise their agency and ultimately provide a better service to their clients.

The Development Agency's Playbook

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