Performance Improvement

Software Engineering

We have developed and taught courses related to software engineering for programmers and other IT staff. These courses have covered a range of topics including software design, programming, database design, testing, quality assurance, project portfolio management, outsourcing, risk management, project management, scheduling and cost control, estimating.

Course Development and Teaching

We have developed and taught many courses for IT professionals and other managers in both the public and private sectors. The courses have covered topics pertaining to project management, software development, software marketing, financial analysis, and valuation.

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Project Mentoring

Working with other consulting firms, we have developed a highly-productive approach to project consulting. This approach combines mentoring and training that provides clients with support from a project management expert throughout the project life cycle. Our approach focuses on the often overlooked importance of understanding business and financial issues when managing projects as well as conventional IT metrics. Each client’s needs are individual and our approach has helped organizations launch new projects, manage risk, analyze troubled projects, monitor project status, and to communicate.

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Customized Programs

We have participated in the development of curriculum for instructor-led courses and workshops as well as courses delivered via the Internet. This work has included doing the pilots for our clients and, then, developing and teaching “train the trainer” courses. Depending on the needs of the client, we can in addition to developing the curriculum take care of the course logistics including arranging for course sites, producing and delivering course materials, and providing instructors.

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Representative Engagements

We were retained by a European-based, global software company to develop and teach a course covering software development and project management.

We were retained to participate in the design and development of a course for the systems integration division of a global IT company. The course topics included financial concepts and other metrics to track the progress and performance of IT projects. We later worked with staff at the company to convert the live course for distance learning. Our work included software design and testing, as well as providing the instructor for several of the initial pilots of the course.

We were retained by an international project management performance improvement company to develop curriculum for customized courses related to risk management, project management, and other topics.

We were retained to develop and teach a course relating to budgeting, financing, and evaluation of Information Technology investments for a government agency in a Latin American country.

We were retained to develop and teach a course relating to software marketing for the software division of a global IT company.