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Optimizely Coaching and Co-Development

Blend offers clients the opportunity to grow their own development practice through Optimizely coaching and co-development. We're here to help develop, integrate, and accelerate your web team.

Optimizely is a powerful tool capable of some amazing content wrangling. The question becomes whether your existing .NET development team is positioned to implement and provide ongoing support for your new Optimizely install or legacy Episerver site. Do you need help with a complex integration? Do you need someone to help bring your team up to speed and provide a graceful handoff once the project is complete?

At Blend, we understand this landscape, because it's what we do. We recognize the value in making sure your team is ready to take on ownership of the implementation — to provide guidance and coaching, rather than a cold handoff. Which is why we provide Optimizely Coaching: our solution for helping your team feel comfortable and confident through your project’s development and far into its future.

Turning Your Team into an Optimizely Team

Blend's history and experience developing custom Optimizely solutions makes us a great choice to pass on our knowledge. Our goal is to set you up for success — both with this engagement and beyond.

What this all means is that Blend is uniquely positioned to fill in the gaps of your team's knowledge or capacity. And, we do it all with one goal in mind: handing over the keys whenever you're ready.

Your custom implementation. Our decades of combined experience.

What does a standard coaching engagement look like? It all depends on what you need. But here's how we might work together:

Option 1: Head Coach

Taking on Optimizely development and feeling stuck? We can be your head coach.

Whether this is your first Optimizely project, an extension of the platform, or onboarding for a new teammate, we can guide you through each step. Our Optimizely certified development team will act as the lead developer for the project and will be responsible for understanding technical requirements, ongoing deployments, and building key features.
 
In the meantime, we carve out time in each sprint to bring your devs up to speed – reviewing code, teaching best practices, and answering any questions. As we progress through the project, we share responsibilities, giving your team more ownership of your code.
 
We continue to coach through code reviews, peer programming, and focused discussions, all while we track toward project launch.
 
Option 2: Co-Captains
 
Some teams already have extensive experience in complex .NET development outside of Optimizely. What these teams need is a co-captain to help them understand how their experience translates to Optimizely.
 
For this partnership, our team shares the responsibility of seeing the project through to launch. Blend's Optimizely developers take the lead in setting up the project while coaching your team through screen share sessions and focused demonstrations – ensuring the project starts off on the right foot following Optimizely best practices.
 
This continues until we reach a pre-determined milestone, when it's time to pass the baton. From here on out, your team becomes responsible for the implementation while our team transitions into a guide for peer programming and code reviews.
 
Option 3: Conditioning & Drills
 
Web development is tough — we know. Even the most experienced developers run into challenges like tackling a tough CMS upgrade, building custom functionality, or integrating without an API.
 
This is why we offer help in conditioning and drills. Through peer programming, screen-sharing discussions, and code reviews, Blend will work with your team to help guide you through whatever your project calls for. 
 

Let’s get started!

Every project is different. Every team is different. Our intent is to understand what goals you’re trying to reach so we can determine how we can best use our experience to get you there.

Some of our coaching engagements.

Learn a bit more about the projects we have coached other teams on.

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Episerver (now Optimizely) Coaching for MSU Moorhead immersed them in their new implementation and prepared them for the future.