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As difficult as it is to buy the right software, you’d think they’d call it hardware. You need to be an expert in how to buy software. You need to know how to write a software specification. For every business there are many problems or needs that can be addressed. Technology will only be able to solve certain problems. For every one of those there are many technologies that will work. For every technology there are many more products or solutions of that technology. And, for every product or solution there are that many more vendors. How do you know if the vendor you picked is even going to have a product, a technology or a solution that can solve your problem and that it's the right problem to solve with technology? First you need to figure out which business problems need to be solved. Then you need to narrow down which of those business problems can be solved with technology. After that you need to determine which technologies are the right ones to apply to solve those problems. Only then can you identify the technology product or solution to address those needs. Don't even think about talking to a developer or vendor until you've done these steps. CMMI can be applied to small companies and in agile development environments and methods.You can achieve a CMMI level rating even though you use XP (Extreme Programming) or another Agile Development approach or method.Looking for help implementing CMMI? Need someone who will understand that 'your're different?' Looking for discipline in a lightweight environment? Entinex understands and can help you achieve your process objectives.Software development isn't manufacturing. So why do people keep trying to use manufacturing methods on software? Manufacturing QA doesn't work in software which is why so much software QA is so painful. Entinex has the solution. Don't let obsolete thinking about software processes intimidate you out of pursuing a CMMI level rating. Old-style thinking about software processes have not kept up with the times, but Entinex has. Entinex understands that you're in business not for the process but to make money selling software products, solutions, and services. Let Entinex help you achieve your process goals without breaking your bank or rhythm.
Would you like your software estimates to improve? Would you like to have predictability and consistency in your software projects? Wouldn't it be nice if you could forecast your capacity for new work and your sales effort? Wouldn't better estimates result in happier clients?

A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR -- APRIL 10th

 Improving your ability to estimate software projects depends on your ability to produce reliable businss intelligence about your software development process. Reliable business intelligence comes from consistent data, and consisten data comes from consistent processes. Processes at the developer level must feed into processes at the management level in a meaningful way. This requires that management methods be defined independently of the development methods.
There's a difference between management methodologies and development methodologies. Knowing this difference is the key to successful software process improvement. Management methods give software companies the ability to make management decisions and commitments internally and to customers. These decisions and commitments are made on the basis of data produced in a few key process areas. Without these processes, the data is unreliable, therefore, project predictability and success is only one project deep and doesn't fully contribute to the projections and success of the company.
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Title:

Project Implementation:  How to get form estimates to actuals in the black (in your projects)

Presenter:

Mr. Hillel Glazer,
Principal
Entinex, Inc. ~~ The Technology Strategy Company

Date/Time:

April 10, 2003 (Thursday)
8:00 - 11:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast at 7:30 a.m.)
See complete schedule.

Location:

Loyola Graduate Center ~~ Timonium Campus
2034 Greenspring Drive, Timonium, MD 21093
Directions

Cost:

FREE.  Complimentary for first-time visitors.

Registration:

Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 8 to:
Jeanne Muscella:  JMuscella@loyola.edu
410-617-2228
CLICK HERE to register on line.

Abstract:

How often do your projects’ estimates meet actual project costs? How wide is the gap between them?
Where do your estimates come from and what goes into them?
What’s the impact on your business of a project’s actual results missing its estimates?

How to Get from Estimates to Actuals in the Black looks at this issue, asks these probing questions and suggests answers.  Participants will be introduced to them with straight-talking, practical approaches to align actual costs with estimates using management tools that generate business intelligence necessary to run projects like a business.  We will be using software development projects as our context for demonstrating the tools and approaches presented.

If it wasn’t for the fact that somewhere there are cost, schedule, and performance benchmarks that projects must meet, estimates wouldn’t be an issue, and nothing else would really be too concerting.  After all, if we could take as much time as we wanted and could get paid for as much time as we took, there wouldn’t be a concern for whether we did requirements discovery very well, or had a robust project plan, or a well-oiled Quality Assurance (QA) system.  But the reality is that estimates are how companies bid their projects and customers expect projects to come in on time.

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Did you know that your technology project has an 80% chance of failing? Do you know what to do to improve those odds? Do you know what to ask your software developer or vendor to make sure they know what to do so that the project you're paying them to do doesn't fail?
Would you like your software estimates to improve? Would you like to have predictability and consistency in your software projects? Wouldn't it be nice if you could forecast your capacity for new work and your sales effort? Wouldn't better estimats result in happier clients?

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