We help your organization improve
Since 1990, we have improved the performance of 500+ companies in the U.S., U.K., Switzerland, Canada, India, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Singapore, China, Saudi Arabia, and Japan.
Your next step
- Contact us at no charge to discuss your needs — read our testimonial page or ask to speak to an existing client
- Build a custom agenda of topics you need help on, or start with one of our existing workshops
- Select on-site or on-line working sessions (e.g., on-line one-on-one sessions and team coaching or Anytime webinars to save on travel)
- Implement Scrum/Agile
- Learn about all of the extra bits needed to make Agile a complete solution
- Learn to integrate Scrum/Agile with CMMI, PMBOK or your current practices
- Fix current Scrum/Agile challenges, e.g., chaos, no requirements, no estimates, no end in sight
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- Learn Scrum/Agile
- Learn to elicit, write, analyze, and manage requirements
- Learn to estimate, plan, assess project risks, and negotiate with customers and management
- Learn to find defects quickly and thoroughly using inspections
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- Improve your capability at delivering software, systems, and services
- Adopt best practices to decrease defects, rework, cost, time-to-market, and risk
- Learn to integrate CMMI with Scrum/Agile, PMBOK, ISO or any combination
- Fix current CMMI challenges, e.g., unuseful or heavy-weight process implementations
- Read more — CMMI Summary — CMMI workshops — CMMI Recorded Classes — CMMI Consulting — Appraisals — Integration with Agile/PMBOK
- Evaluate your organization’s engineering and project management practices — determine what works and what does not
- Optionally, compare with published framework practices (e.g., Agile/Scrum, ISO, or PMBOK)
- Obtain consensus on your strengths and opportunities for improvement
- Set improvement priorities by mapping the appraisal findings to your business goals
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- Meet project deadlines and reduce surprises
- Manage project expectations among team members, customers, marketing, and management
- Learn to integrate practices from CMMI, Scrum/Agile, or PMBOK
- Fix current challenges, e.g., chronic overcommitment, chaos, and overruns
- Read more — Project Management — Online Recorded Class — Only Risk Management — Only Estimation
- Understand customer needs and clarify product requirements early
- Manage customer expectations and scope changes
- Go beyond Agile user stories with other types of requirements
- Fix current requirements challenges, e.g., no requirements, ambiguous requirements, and unmanaged changes
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- Avoid schedule delays caused by needless product rework
- Significantly reduce maintenance costs
- Make current reviews faster and thorough
- Fix current defect challenges, e.g., rework, quality and your company’s image, and projects stuck in final test
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- Select which projects to outsource
- Select qualified suppliers
- Manage your outsourced project
- Fix current supplier challenges, e.g., “suppliers continually surprise us, we can’t deliver on time”
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- Understand the cycle for managing all work
- Understand key time management principles to achieve more
- Reduce and manage interruptions
- Optimize work with remote teams
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- Custom help on any topic; contact us to discuss your needs
- Anytime webinars for your group
Each service includes:
- Accomplishing real work during all of our workshops and sessions so that no time is lost [examples]
- Scaling our advice to your size (whether you are a 2-person team or 1,000-person organization)
- Complimentary technical support for each service, and briefings to management and other groups