A number of years ago, a major client asked me to develop a course on software engineering. The problem was that they were sending their  software engineers to basic courses. The returning engineers did not producing results that were any better when they came back. This course produces results!

"Getting Software Out On Time - For A Change!"

We can schedule this course at your facility

• Software Results Incorporated
  P.O. Box 3161
  Framingham Ma. 01705-3161
  508-877-4311
  bpodd@softwareresults.com

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  Overview
  Who Should Attend
  Teacher Profile
  What You Will Learn
  Registration
  

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  Overview:

  Here's your chance to spend three days with an acknowledged expert on managing software development projects.

  This course will help put Engineering into your company's software process. The Mission is to provide tools and an approach to tune the process so the products get out on time - for a change!

  One of the first exercises will teach you how to estimate what a late delivery actually costs. That will definitely get your attention. From then on, it will be obvious that what you will learn will save the tuition cost many times over!

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  Who Should Attend?

  You, of course!
  If you or your company chronically experience late delivery of the software you need, and are interested in tuning your software development process for on-time delivery, you had better attend.

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  Who Will Teach Me?

  Bob Podd , founder of Software Results Incorporated.
  Bob works with software departments that are sick and tired of shipping products late much of the time. He helps his clients develop a custom approach to the way they specify, design, code, and test their products to help them get their products out on time ... for a change!

  Bob is a dynamic speaker whose insights are based on 25 years of experience in this industry. He has enthralled, enlightened, and entertained audiences at numerous national and in-house conferences across the country. He is truly an expert in his field ... and you will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and discuss your design requirements and problems.

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  What You Will Learn:

  After this class, you should be able to:

  • Discover what it is costing your company to settle for "business as usual".
  • Why it is worth almost any price to get products out on time.
  • Get a handle on what kind of development process you actually have at your organization.
  • Use "low tech GroupWare" techniques to figure out what you should build and how to change the way you estimate how long each segment of the project should take to complete.
  • Apply systematic analysis and design methods to plan the event flow of your system.
  • Assess whether an Evolutionary Design Plan would improve your group's actual delivery performance.
  • Target for change within your company.
  • Price, performance, and schedule model can tell what happens when you change your process.
  • Analyze how product feature choices impact cost, performance, and delivery.
  • Why feature creep nearly always becomes a stampede.
  • Understand the "Market window" rules the world
  • Understand how initial product structure decisions impact product sales.
  • Why pushing the performance envelope will make you late nearly every time.
  • Negotiate what gets built and how long it will take.
  • Avoid some traditional project management methods that are guaranteed to make you late.
  • Manage and recover from a schedule slip during the project.
  • Introduce new features while the project is being developed.

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