Six-month delivery sprints · Chicago
We design a SCRUM sprint around one backlogged goal and staff it from our network of senior engineers, executive leaders, and experienced MBA students.
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The problem
Strategic, well understood, and never urgent enough to beat the roadmap. Hiring takes quarters, your best people are booked, and consultancies sell hours.
How it works
One goal, a written definition of done, and working software every two weeks.
Animation: six backlog items are compared and sorted by priority; the top item becomes the sprint goal.
Animation: the sprint goal is written, the definition of done is checked off item by item, and empty role slots appear for the team.
Animation: people from the vectora network are matched and move into each role on the sprint team.
Animation: stories move across a To do, Doing, Done board while ceremonies light up in sequence and a burndown chart falls, iteration after iteration.
Animation: a 26-week timeline fills, a progress ring completes with a checkmark, and the handoff checklist appears.
The network
Talent that joins for one sprint and rolls off when it ships.
Why a sprint
Fixed goal. Fixed team. Fixed six months.
Leadership
A principal designs every sprint and owns it through handoff.
Principal & Co-Founder
Engineering delivery · AI systems · Platform architectureLeads engineering teams shipping production ML and scalable software. Clinical Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University.
Principal & Co-Founder
Experimental design · Data strategy · MeasurementTen-plus years advising biopharma and medtech on study design and data analysis. Makes every definition of done measurable. Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Northwestern University.
Joshua combines intellectual horsepower with an exceptional ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively. He's that rare consultant who not only knows his craft inside and out but also ensures everyone around him grows stronger through the collaboration.
Patents and peer-reviewed research.
FAQ
A well-understood goal that's stalled on capacity, not clarity: replatforms, migrations, new internal products, data consolidation, or AI features headed to production.
Long enough to ship to production, short enough to keep scope fixed: two weeks of planning plus twelve two-week iterations.
Your product owner reprioritizes at every iteration planning. If the goal itself changes, we re-plan it with you openly.
At Nike, Google, and Microsoft, procurement is already done. Elsewhere, we refine the backlog while onboarding runs.
You do: mutual NDAs, full IP assignment, and work inside your repositories.
Your team owns it, with docs, runbooks, and a paired handoff. Or we design the next sprint.
Plan a sprint
Tell us what's stuck. We'll reply with a sprint shape and team.