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<center><b>Predictable Software Development<font size=1><sup>TM</<sup></font>
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<center><b><i>An interactive series of workshops for Sr. Executives, Managers, and Staff
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For many companies, the demand for their software products frequently exceeds
their capability to deliver. Complicating the situation, many organizations
frequently promise customers more than they can reasonably expect to deliver.
As a result, many software companies frequently fail to meet customer
expectations. This leads to frustrated, unhappy customers and frustrated
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Most software organizations lack discipline, credibility, and most importantly,
predictability. As a result, it is very difficult to accurately determine when
software products will be released, the features these products will have, and
their overall quality. Without knowing when products will be released, your
organization may not be able to plan customer training and product promotions,
your resource utilization across projects may become difficult to manage, and
your customers may be unable to plan for introduction of your software into
their organization.
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A <b>Predictable Software Development<font size=1><sup>TM</sup></font> </b> process can significantly
improve an organization's ability to deliver quality software on time, to meet customer
expectations, and to improve employee satisfaction.
<p> Applying proven techniques can help your organization manage commitments more effectively, balance
issues of time-to-market vs. quality, and bring accountability to the software development process all
of which will result in <b>improvements to your bottom line.</b>
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<b>Components of a Predictable Software Development<font size=1><sup>TM</sup></font> Process</b><p>
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<b>Learn Predictable Software Development<font size=1><sup>TM</sup></font> in a series of three
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<b>Part 1: Management's Role </a></b><p>
<i>An interactive � day workshop for Senior Management</i></b>
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A <b>Predictable Software Development</b><font size=1><sup>TM</sup></font> process can significantly
improve an organization's ability to deliver quality software on time, to meet customer expectations,
and to improve employee satisfaction.
In order to become more predictable, <b>Management</b> must play an active role in changing the
culture. This half-day workshop provides <b>Managers and Sr. Executives</b> with proven techniques they
can use to help their organizations become more predictable. These techniques can help you make more
effective use of scarce engineering resources, reduce the number of costly bug-fix releases, balance
issues of quality, features, and schedule, as well as people, product, and process. As a direct
result, you will learn how to <b>under-commit and over-deliver,</b> and improve your bottom line.
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<b>Part 2: Building Realistic Project Schedules from Software Requirements</a></b> <p>
<i><b>An interactive full-day workshop for Software Project Teams</i></b>
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The increasing demand for complex software coupled with the inability of many organizations to write
clear, concise requirements results in increased time to market, increased rework, and lower quality
products - all of which negatively impacts your company's bottom line. Further, software project teams
are often unable to accurately estimate and schedule the work they need to perform. As a result,
Management frequently imposes delivery dates for new products. With the end date given, the project
team is then forced to "schedule backwards". Schedules developed in this manner are always unrealistic
since the project team must estimate task duration based on time available rather than time required.
Since most companies provide little or no training in writing requirements, task estimating and
project scheduling, it's not surprising that software projects are frequently delivered late, with
fewer features than were promised, and with too many bugs. Many companies over-commit and under-
deliver.
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<b>To address this problem organizations need to learn how to:</b><p>
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<li>write better requirements,
<li>prepare accurate estimates of required tasks based on those requirements,
<li>develop realistic schedules based on these estimates, and
<li>deliver promised features in promised time frame.
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This full day workshop provides the skills your organization needs to learn how to <i>under-commit and
over-deliver</i>. The morning session is devoted to understanding the importance of writing good
requirements and specific skills need to accomplish this. The afternoon session is focused on
estimating skills and scheduling best practices. Estimating techniques such as the Wideband Delphi Method are
discussed as examples of ways to improve the accuracy of estimates. Scheduling practices such as the Yellow
Sticky Method are presented as a tool that project teams can use to develop accurate estimates and build realistic schedules that can
be met. Interactive exercises on estimating and scheduling are included to reinforce the discussion.
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<b>Part 3: Overview of Software Verification and Validation </a><p>
<i>An interactive full-day workshop for project leads, SQA staff, and developers</i></b>
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In today's global economy, the product development cycle has shrunk from years to months. Many new
products have software embedded within them. Companies are finding that the demand for products
frequently exceeds their capacity to deliver. As a result, many organizations are make tradeoffs
between product quality and time to market. While perfect software is not practical, delivering poor
quality software can have a negative impact on both customers and suppliers. By the effective use of
Software Verification & Validation techniques, companies can improve Quality, which lowers long term
costs and increases profits, and help get products to market faster.
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This workshop can be tailored to meet your specific needs.
<p>Call for details...
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This informal, interactive workshop is based, in part, on my book:
<b> <a href="../book/summary.html">Software Verification and Validation for
Practitioners and Managers, 2nd ed</a> </b>
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<p>call Steve Rakitin at <font size="3" color=Red face="Arial">508.529.4282</font>
<p><font size="3" color=Black face="Arial">or e-mail him at
<a href="mailto:[email protected]"><b>[email protected]</a></b><p><br>
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