Please call or email Matthew Weaver directly at Matthew@QualityProjects.Com or +1 (703) 999‑2656.

• 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.

• Adapting a Practical Style Guide.  This is a comprehensive document style guide for common business and technical documents. It includes information and tools necessary to create consistent, high quality documents across a company or organization.  Adapting a Practical Style Guide is more than a simple style guide as it offers detailed how-to on to plan the style guide effort, assess needs, develop the style guide and supporting resources, implement the style guide, and sustain it successfully.  As Matthew writes in the book, “This book is successful if you do not finish it with the question: “Well, that’s a nice idea but where do I start and what should I include?”
   
• Adapting a Practical Project and Development Methodology.  This book distills a methodology that integrates best practices that include, but are not limited to, the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), the Software Engineering Institute’s Integrated Capability Maturity Model (Continuous Representation; CMMI), the International Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) collection of standards and guidelines, and the International Standards Organization’s ISO-9000:2008 Quality Standard.

Matthew founded Quality Projects on the principle that successful projects don’t happen by chance.  Our goal is to help you complete your projects successfully by delivering quality services to you with a simple and direct philosophy and ethic:

1. Say what we do, do what we say, and prove it.
    
2. Be honest, respectful, and diligent.

We apply leading industry best practices and sustain a strong commitment to quality through implementation of ISO-9001 and CMMI.  We also apply basic project management principles as organized by PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge.  The bottom line is that we:

1. Are deliberate in our approach;
    
2. Apply measurable structure and milestones;
    
3. Continually evaluate, adjust, and improve upon every aspect of our work

Our quality objectives are:

• Maintain a formal quality system meeting basic ISO-9001 requirements.
   
• Promote an atmosphere of continuous process improvement and problem prevention.
   
• Empower employees to help improve the systems that affect their work.
   
• Provide education and training to all employees to support their health, welfare, and safety.
   
• Communicate our quality objectives to all employees.

Sustaining company policies and practices include:

• Buy American, hire American. We give preference to American-made products and only hire U.S. citizens and other individuals legally authorized to work in the U.S. The company does not hire or use H1B workers, nor does it contract work offshore.
   
• Quality Projects is committed in its contracting and employment to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, age, sex, ancestry, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other classification protected by state or federal law.
   
• All client work is prefaced with a written contact, statement of work, and other documents as may be necessary to ensure mutual understanding and agreement about the work to be done and terms and conditions that apply.
   
• Quality Projects plans and executes all projects and client work using industry best practices to achieve success within budget and on time. Please click Best Practices for more information.
   

Company Profile

• Formal Name:  Quality Projects Group, LLC
   
• Common Name:  Quality Projects
   
• Central Contractor Registration (CCR):  The company is an active registrant for contracting with the U.S. Federal Government.
   
• E-Verify:  The company participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) E-Verify program to ensure that all employees and contractors are legally eligible to work in the U.S.
   
• DUNS ID:  829934657
   
• CAGE Code:  5D2Y8
   
• Corporate Structure:  Limited Liability Company based in New York
   
• Business Type and Certifications:  Veteran-owned small business
   
• SIC Codes:  8742 (Management consulting services); Other codes that may apply include 7371 (Computer programming services), 7373 (Computer integrated systems design), 7374 (Computer processing and data preparation and processing services), 7375 (Information retrieval services), 7379 (Computer related services, not elsewhere classified), 8243 (Data processing schools), and 2731 (Books: publishing, or publishing and printing)
   
• NAICS Codes:  An incomplete list of applicable NAICS codes includes 541511 (Custom computer programming services), 541512 (Computer systems design services), 541513 (Computer facilities management services), 541519 (Other computer related services), 561410 (Document preparation services), 541611 (Management, scientific, and technical consulting services or Administrative management and general management consulting services or Management consulting services), 541612 (Human resources and executive search consulting services), 541613 (Marketing consulting services), 541614 (Process, physical distribution, and logistics consulting services), 541618 (Other management consulting services), 518210 (Data processing computer services), 611420 (Computer training), 611430 (Professional and management development and training), and 611691 (Exam preparation and tutoring)
   
• PSC Codes:  AD26 (Services (management and support)), H176 (Quality control services (books, maps, and other publications)), R302 (ADP systems develop and programming), R303 (ADP services and data entry), R304 (ADP services and data transmission), R305 (ADP teleprocessing services), R306 (ADP system analysis), R307 (Automated information system services), R399 (Other ADP services), R413 (Specifications development services), R415 (Technology sharing/utilization services), R419 (Educational services), T013 (Technical writing services), D307 (Automated information system design and integration services), D314 (ADP system acquisition support services), and H270 (Equipment and materials testing/ADP equipment and supplies)
   
• FSC Code:  7030 (ADP Software)
   
• Year Established:  2001
   

Matthew J. Weaver, PMP, CSM, ITIL

Matthew Weaver has over 30 years of IT, technical, project, service, and general business management experience at leading commercial, government, and non-profit organizations. He specializes in project, development, and service management and methodologies, the software development lifecycle (SDLC), process improvement and business process reengineering (BPR), quality assurance (QA), and software test.

Matthew holds Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), and ITIL V3 certifications. MCTS and ISO/IEC 20000 certifications will be achieved in 2010.

Matthew is writing two books, Adapting a Practical Methodology and Adapting a Practical Style Guide, that leverage his 30 years of experience and subject matter expertise.

Matthew is available as consultant through Quality Projects. Please email or call with any questions, to discuss your requirements, and Matthew’s availability. Additional consultants are also available for assignment.

Matthew’s professional background is detailed on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewjweaverpmp. Connection invites are welcomed.

• Business, Program, and Project Management
   
• Process Improvement and Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
   
• Business Analysis and Requirements Management
   
• Quality Assurance (QA) and Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)
   
• Software Test
   
• Technical Writing and Editing
   
• Instruction and Mentoring

Most business tasks are not “complete once and walk away.” Quality efforts require continued diligence and improvement. Recognizing this we offer each of the above as focused, continuous services. Benefits gained by using our services include:

• Independent validation and verification by a qualified, impartial team
   
• Minimal direct workspace, equipment, connectivity, and personnel requirements, freeing up your permanent staff for other critical work

Company consultants are available as staff assigned directly to clients for work on-site, as work conducted and managed by us on– or off-site, or by whatever arrangement works best for the client’s particular requirements.  We deliver solutions.

• Business, program, and project management
   
• Process improvement, business process reengineering (BPR), reviews and audits, transition, change agent, adoption of best practices, and technology insertion
   
• Business analysis and requirements management
   
• Quality assurance (QA) and Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)
   
• Software testing with specialization in manual test to include usability, user experience, access, look & feel, content, fields and data, functionality, and errors & exceptions
   
• Technical writing and editing of Web site and application content, help, FAQ, how-to, troubleshooting guides, requirements specifications, technical and end user manuals, project and development methodologies, and Web design and document style guides
   
• Instruction and mentoring on expertise and technology (e.g., Microsoft Project)
   
• Service, product, and materiel acquisition including RFP/RFQ, specifications, engineering drawings, SLAs, contracts, and inspections
   
• Proposal preparation, reviews, and editing
   
• Advise, write, and edit job descriptions for clients, review candidates, conduct interviews, and contribute recommendations on hiring and contract