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The Art & Science of Great Software Projects

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OUR VISION & MISSION

Our vision is to reduce the remarkably high

rate of software project failures worldwide, by

transforming the way companies manage

them.

Our mission is to reduce your software

project cost, duration, effort, and risk by

developing a standardized approach,

guidance, and tools for project management

and delivery.

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Key Benefits

• Results Oriented

• Scientific approach: Observe, Plan, Do, Study, Adjust

• Converts your business goals into SMART project objectives

• Emphasizes User Adoption and Change Management

• Flexible and Collaborative

• Partnership with your project manager and team

• 1st or 2nd level project delivery support, as you prefer

• Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban? We adapt to you

• Remote collaboration using secure online services

• Regular communication through calls and web meetings

• Service desk to handle your unexpected needs

• Cost-Effective

• Project acceleration using our tools, templates, and content

• Detailed task definitions and accurate estimate ranges

• Effort charged in 30 minute blocks for maximum budget flexibility


OUR HIGH-IMPACT CONSULTING SERVICES

We support your planning,

management, and delivery activities

BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER your

software projects.

BEFOREYOUR PROJECT STARTS

Our Pre-Project

Support services assist

your organization with

• Proposals & RFPs

• Statements of Work

• Roadmaps &

Strategies

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Key Benefits

• Increase your win rate with responses that

convey your unique value proposition

• Leverage deep technical & business expertise

• Hyper-detailed & accurate

• Fast turnaround time

• Public Sector experience (esp. Canadian

federal, provincial, municipal gov’t)


PROPOSALS & RFPS

Proposals and RFP responses are tricky. You need to:

1) Convincingly convey your unique value proposition

2) Catch every minor detail; an incomplete response

can doom your bid

3) Accurately describe important technical concepts and

assumptions that could otherwise blow up your bid, or

(worse!) the project once you’ve won

4) Meet a tight review, approval, and submission

timeframe

We can write the entire bid for you, or edit and review it.

Key Benefits

• Increase your project success rate with

accurate planning and resourcing

• Manage client expectations with detailed

assumptions

• Leverage deep technical & business expertise

• Hyper-detailed & accurate

• Fast turnaround time


STATEMENTS OF WORK

Statements of Work are similar to proposals and RFP

responses, with the additional burden of incorporating

accurate high-level planning and resourcing to schedule

and budget your project delivery, and detailed

assumptions to manage your client’s expectations.

We can write the entire statement of work for you, or edit

and review it as part of your bid and project team.

Key Benefits

• Convert your “Big Picture” into achievable solutions

• Simplify multi-phase/multi-year roadmaps

• Develop realistic strategies for cloud and user

adoption, change management, governance, and more.

• Prepare high-level implementation plans that fit your

strategies and resources

• Leverage deep architecture & development expertise

including enterprise, infrastructure, and cloud


ROADMAPS & STRATEGIES

Business and technology changes fast. It can be

challenging to turn your “Big Picture” business

goals into achievable software technology

implementations.

Also, your roadmap is more likely to succeed if you

have clear and realistic strategies for achieving it. It

must be supported by appropriate and detailed.

We create solution roadmaps with viable strategies

and concrete implementation plans.

DURINGYOUR PROJECT

Our Project Support

services assist your

project manager, project

team and stakeholders

with

• Scheduling & Tracking

• Migrations & Cleanups

• Deployments &

Releases

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Key Benefits

• Approach estimates methodically and statistically to

increases accuracy and confidence

• Reduce “progress reporting” friction with our time-

and task-tracking techniques

• Optimize project plan and tasks to reduce critical path

• Identify, document, and assess project change

request and issue impacts

• Leverage our deep technical and business expertise

to overcome project obstacles


SCHEDULING & TRACKING

We combine technical and business expertise to help

your PM overcome obstacles, and stay on track.

Our methodical and statistical approach to estimates

increases accuracy and confidence, and our time- and

task-tracking techniques reduce “progress reporting”

friction.

We optimize your project plan and tasks to reduce

risks and costs, and assess CR and issue impacts.

Key Benefits

• Develop migration strategy including key migration

formulas, metrics, test cases, and risks

• Optimize migration plan and tasks

• Approach estimates methodically and statistically to

increases accuracy and confidence

• Reduce confusion by clarifying and communicating

cleanup and migration roles & responsibilities beforehand

• Leverage our deep technical and business expertise to

overcome project obstacles


MIGRATIONS & CLEANUPS

Migration and cleanup activities are complex. They can be

hard, complicated work for project teams, support staff, and

business users. Unexpected or overlooked technical issues,

and process and communication gaps, can quickly lead to

costly overruns and delays.

Our methodical and templated approach to migrations and

cleanups increases accuracy and confidence, reduces business

and project team effort and confusion, and optimizes your

migration and cleanup plan and tasks to reduce risks and

costs.

Key Benefits

• Develop deployment & release strategy including

environments, pipeline, metrics, test cases, and risks

• Optimize manual and automated tasks

• Reduce confusion by clarifying and communicating roles &

responsibilities and activities, including:

• Change management and UAT

• Stakeholder and user communication

• Co-existence and decommissioning tasks

• Leverage our deep technical and business expertise to

overcome project obstacles


DEPLOYMENTS & RELEASES

High stakes, high rewards - when it comes to deploying

software, the pressure's on! We can reduce the stress, and

increase the success.

Our methodical and templated approach to deployments and

releases increases accuracy and confidence, reduces business

and project team effort and confusion, and optimizes your

deployment and release plan and tasks to reduce risks

and costs.

AFTERYOUR PROJECT ENDS

Our Post-Project

Support services assist

your project manager with

• Feedback & Lessons

Learned

• Project Analysis

• Templates &

Accelerators

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Key Benefits

• Gather feedback methodically and

objectively to increase response accuracy

• “Positivity” approach encourages

constructive responses and transparency

• Aggregate feedback to detect trends

• Recommend “lessons learned” to optimize

future project plans and tasks


FEEDBACK & LESSONS LEARNED

It’s vital to gather feedback and lessons right after

your project ends, in order to improve future

projects. We help you gather project team,

stakeholder, and end user feedback objectively

and reliably using workshops and surveys. We

then aggregate the responses into a set of

“Lessons Learned”, which you apply to your

upcoming projects.

Key Benefits

• Deep dive into the expected and actual results

of your project

• Objective analysis shows areas of improvement

• Suggestions can be used to reduce the cost,

effort, duration, and risk of future projects

• Areas of improvement cost-estimated and

prioritized


PROJECT ANALYSIS

If you don't measure it, you can't improve it. Deep

dive into the results of your completed project,

analyze the feedback and lessons learned, and

compare your baseline metrics against your actual

results.

The objective analysis results in a formal report that

suggests areas of improvement. If adopted, these

reduce the cost, duration, effort, and risk of future

projects.

Key Benefits

• Reusable templates and content snippets kick-

start project documentation and deliverables

• Custom automated tools speed up your project

teams important or repetitive tasks

• Increase deliverable quality and reduce risk

• Leverage our existing licensed project material

as a starting point


TEMPLATES & ACCELERATORS

Working manually from scratch every project is a

waste of your organization’s time and money. It

also creates inconsistencies, oversights, and

opportunities for errors.

Using the results of the Project Analysis, we help

you create reusable templates, content, and tools

that accelerate your team’s project efforts, saving

you time and money while improving the quality of

their results. Leverage our licensed project material

to truly fast-forward your team.


Readyto deploysomething great?

Book an appointment on our

website or email

[email protected]

and let’s discuss your unique

project needs.

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