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Too often software development projects
go off track. This can be due to many reasons including
poor productivity, poor communication skills and even
personality conflicts. The results can be disastrous
for companies and careers. Strategies has helped many
companies turn failing projects into successful products.
Statistics shows that due to many reasons, up to 40%
of software development projects fail or exceed either
their budget, or deadline, or both.
In most of the cases you have only
two choices: either attempt to rescue the project and
achieve your goals or cancel it and lose your investments.
Of course you want the project to succeed, after all
you started down the path of developing it to solve
a critical business problem. If the flow of your software
development project does not satisfy you, and or if
it cannot be finished within the allocated budget or
with sufficient quality, we offer our
While rescuing the project, we achieve
the following goals:
• Ensure that a project can be
finished with minimal additional costs or time expended.
• Make project flow and its status transparent
for you.
• Increase quality of the deliverables.
• Eliminate problems that lead to delays and other
project problems
• Poor requirements management
• Poor project planning and management
• Uncontrolled quality
• Unrealistic expectations or inaccurate estimates
• Lack to technological knowledge
If you are concerned about your project
and need a critical review, we can help. We can perform
detailed code reviews, perform product testing, review
project documentation and use our automated tools to
give you an accurate status report. Our work on your
project can be kept entirely covert. We have developed
the methodology that brings projects back to their budget
and time frames.
Typically, a small team of our technical
and process specialists come to a place and investigate
the situation. Then they present non-biased professional
evaluation of the situation and offer possibilities of
project rescue.
This unique service will help you to
attain success instead of failure and thereby saving
you millions of dollars which would have otherwise got
washed down the drain. Not to mention the satisfaction
and increased productivity in getting your favorite
software product working, finally.
If you are already ready to move your
project, we will review the project with you to determine
how we can adopt the project with as little loss as
possible. This will include:
• Gather all source code for
all components of your system
• Ensure that the source code “builds”
properly
• Create CD-ROMs or DVDs to archive your project
• Put all source and documentation into source
control
• Establish a secure bugtracking web site for
your project
• Create a Quality Assurance Test Plan
• Adopt product testing
• Work with you to prioritize issues
• Create a plan for finishing your project
• Work with your team or independently to deliver
your product
Strategies realizes companies and individuals
do not want publicity when it comes to troubled projects.
We respect our client’s privacy and will not disclose
that a rescue mission is in progress or was ever performed
for your company.
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