Optimise Your Software Methodology

One of the key areas for managing the costs of creating and maintaining software is to utilise a methodology. Having the appropriate methodology will allow an organistion to save both direct and indirect costs - higher productivity, shorter development schedules and higher levels of customer satisfaction.

EQE has worked to, implemented and audited the main software development methodologies in a number of vertical industries. EQE have witnessed aspects of methodologies that have worked well and aspects that were not suitable for the particlular project, the staff or the organisation.

Methodologies are designed to meet a number of objectives and some of these objectives may not wholly reflect an organisation's needs.

"Cooking" Your Methodology

EQE's approach is to study your organisation and devise a bespoke approach so that you can have a development "recipe" that reflects your stengths and act upon your weaknesses. EQE will take key ingredients from "cook books" such as: DSDM; Rapid Application Development; Extended V-Model; EQE's Check Point Process; Prince 2 and Scrum and season with our experience. The recipe will form a methodology that will be best suited to your current organisation and be flexible enough to allow future growth.

What EQE will do:

• Use the EQE "Health Check" to analyse your current approach, talk to your people and review current and past practices.
• Identify your current strengths and weaknesses.
• Identify and prioritise your immediate business needs.
• Define a methodology framework that will enhance your strengths and act on your weaknesses.
  • Define the minimum processes to allow you to get up and running.
  • Define a road map that will allow you to implement the remainder of the framework at your pace and in reflection to future businees needs.
• Train your organisation in the new methodology: roles, processes, tools and equipment.
  • Gain staff buy in.
  • Identify process champions.
  • Hand over ownership to your organisation.
• Provide support via e-mail, telephone or on-site visits.
• Assist or manage a process review at the end of a project or period. Help identify amendments to the current processes and road map.

The offering is for those organisations who want a new methodology or to optimse a methodlogy for their projects.

Please contact us to find out how EQE can help to optimise your software methodology. Our no obligation, initial meeting lasts 1 hour and is free.