Quality Projects

The term “Best Prac­tices” has almost become a cliché — mean­ing­less and used in a broad, generic sense. While we don’t sub­scribe to a one-​​size-​​fits-​​all mean­ing, there are spe­cific method­olo­gies, stan­dards, and guide­lines that are uni­ver­sal and make sense to use. We apply our expe­ri­ence and com­mon sense to help you tai­lor and scale these best prac­tices to max­i­mize their ben­e­fits in your enter­prise, pro­gram, or project. Lead­ing best prac­tices include:

• Project Man­age­ment Institute’s Project Man­age­ment Body of Knowl­edge (PMBOK)
   
• Soft­ware Engi­neer­ing Institute’s Capa­bil­ity Matu­rity Mod­els (CMMI)
   
• Soft­ware Engi­neer­ing Institute’s IDEAL Model
   
• IEEE stan­dards and guide­lines
   
• ISO-9001:2008 Qual­ity Stan­dard
   
• Object Man­age­ment Group’s Uni­fied Mod­el­ing Lan­guage (UML) and Uni­fied Process (UP)
   
• Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma, and other approaches
   
• Acces­si­bil­ity con­sid­er­a­tions
   
• User inter­face con­sid­er­a­tions
   
• Glob­al­iza­tion and local­iza­tion considerations

We help you learn, adapt, and use indus­try best prac­tices to cre­ate higher qual­ity results — effi­ciently, pre­dictably, and repeat­edly. We assess which method­olo­gies, stan­dards, and guide­lines are applic­a­ble to your project and rec­on­cile these with what you are already using. We doc­u­ment our efforts, pro­vide trace­abil­ity to the applied best prac­tices, and con­duct con­tin­u­ous process improve­ment to ensure that these best prac­tices are rel­e­vant and con­tribut­ing to your success.