Guaranteed Successful Projects
- 2. So What is Success?
- 3. “A successful application is any application that serves the needs of the business”Applications are built and implemented through a set of large and small projectsProject Failureis when a project:Is over Budget or Behind ScheduleIs CancelledFails to meet organizational needs
- 4. Major Failed Application ProjectsSources: Business Week, CEO Magazine, Computerworld, InfoWeek, Fortune, The New York Times, Time, and The Wall Street Journal“59.9% of projects fail from unclear, incomplete, and improperly documented requirements that originate from unclear objectives”59.9%Source: Chaos Report 1985 - 2009
- 5. “The Business Analysis and Project Management skills are the greatest skillsets that aid successful applications”Companies with poor business analysis capability will have three times as many project failures as successes.68% of companies are more likely to have a marginal project or outright failure than a success due to the way they approach business analysis. Over 41% of the IT development budget for software, staff and external professional services will be consumed by poor requirements.The vast majority of projects surveyed did not utilize sufficient business analysis skill to consistently bring projects in on time and budget. Source: “The Business Requirement Benchmark”, IAG Consulting, IIBA Founding Partner
- 6. “The level of competency required is higher than that employed within projects for 70% of the companies surveyed.”Source: “The Business Requirement Benchmark”, IAG Consulting, IIBA Founding Partner
- 7. If there are no proper business requirements “then where do the design specs come from”Randy A Steinberg, Implementing ITIL
- 8. “We partner with our customers under contracts with a winning equation…Fixed Cost + Fixed Scope + Timely Delivery = Guaranteed Results”
- 9. Skill and Resource AllocationThe senior requirements facilitator isnot easily produced and manyorganizations are finding this out thehard way. The truth is; this person is 1 in 10,000.ING – “The case for outsourcing Requirements Facilitation”Portfolio ManagerBA (CBAP) & PM (PMP)10yr Prof.TeamLeadsSr. Business AnalystBA (CBAP) 5yr Prof.On-SiteSr. Project ManagerPM(PMP) 5yr Prof.On-SiteSr. Development Manager10 Year Prof.Close Shore Senior Development Teams(70% more cost effective than US based developers – savings passed to customer)GC-Costa Rica | GC-Egypt | GC-India(Systems Analyst, Development , QA)Developers - .Net, PHP, ASP, PERL, JAVA, XML, C#, VB, RPG …DBA – Oracle, MSQL, MySQL, DB2 …Sr. Development Teams5 Year Prof.
- 10. Team ComparisonGeniusCo Software TeamsDeveloper and AnalystStaff AugmentationPortfolio Manager(BA + PM)
- 13. Development Mgr
- 14. System Analyst
- 15. Software DevelopersDeveloper and AnalystInternal HireVS. Developer and ManagerLocal Outsourcing Developers and ManagerOff-Shore Outsourcing
- 16. GeniusCo’s internal Software Development Lifecycle Process
- 17. Proven Operational FrameworksProven SDLC FrameworksProcess ImprovementGiven to every customerMeasurementBodies of Knowledge, Best Practices and Benchmarks
- 18. “We have a proven method for creating guaranteed success”Work closely with business (Understand culture, motives, history, internal and external influencing factors, objectives, strategies, )
- 19. Partner with current IT *
- 20. Implement S.M.A.R.T.S. IT process (World Class Business Analysis, Project Management and process engineering)
- 22. Maintain focus on timely delivery
- 23. Set minor incremental milestones and product releases
- 24. Measure and refine resultsWhat our Customers say
- 25. @ Height: Over $5 Billion USD in annual salesThe largest Auctioneer in the worldOver 35,000 employeesRapid Automotive Sales ProcessProduct: Vehicle Auctions
- 26. “They are fabulous! Geniusco was instrumental in providing information critical for decision making in the Specialty and Heavy Truck and Eq area. They are excellent communicators, project managers, project scope documenters and do an excellent job translating our needs.I regard them highly.”Karen Braddy, General Manager of Specialty and Highline Sales
- 27. @ Height: Over $1 Billion USD in annual salesThe largest private owned Home Builders in the Southeast37 Years in BusinessRefined Home Development ProcessProduct: High Quality Homes
- 28. “We have made tremendous strides in the last year thanks to you. I appreciate your commitment and energy and especially the generosity with which you share your knowledge in the domain. The web is our future and I’m glad you guys are here to lead the way.”Handwritten letter to GC by Jack Wieland, Executive VP of Sales and Marketing
- 29. Guaranteed IT Success or we pay for it