Public beta of the "Software Development Practice Advisor"

For immediate release:    

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 

Today, Fourth Medium Consulting is announcing the launch of the public beta for “The Software Development Practice Advisor” (SDPA), a cloud-based expert system that promises to change the way enterprises approach Lean and Agile software development transformations.  You can find a link to the system and request a trial at http://sdpa.software-development-experts.com/advisor . 

Specifically, this system enables cost-effective change at scale.  It is an alternative to hiring an army of coaches.  It serves as a vital platform to help gain leverage and focuses coaching cycles on the human aspects of changing to modern software development practice.  The system also removes the fog of the method wars, reducing all known approaches into a dynamically configurable system of practices.  It facilitates organizational learning through “Smart Retrospectives™”, and helps provide advice and guidance regarding sound practice choices in context.  Refactoring of an endeavor’s approach is also supported through a negative inference engine, such that optimal steerage is possible as more is learned in flight.    

According to Mark Kennaley, President and Principal Consultant of Fourth Medium Consulting Inc, inventor and product architect of SDPA, “leveraging this expert system and its’ underlying kernel enables our industry to go beyond the method flavor du jour; it will provide credible answers regarding the efficacy of various software development practices across the contextual spectrum we observe with enterprise software development endeavors.”

Accompanying this cloud-based offering is the formation of an expert community supporting this product.  “Software Development Experts™” (SDE) promises to facilitate community knowledge integration, delivered through the platform of SDPA.  A distinguished group of Industry Advisors and expert level Practice Stewards are working hard to distill and integrate the fragmented software practice knowledge in our industry.  Carson Holmes, well known for his strengths as a community builder as president of the Global Rational User Group, is facilitating the emergence of this group, and summed up this powerful combination saying “never has there been working software produced that can explain why succeeding projects succeed and failing projects fail, and can draw the interest of such a distinguished set of industry experts that believe it has a chance to stop all the fads and fashion in our industry forever.”

To learn more about SDPA or participate in the emerging SDE community, visit www.software-development-experts.com.

For more information, contact us at contact@fourth-medium.com .

About Fourth Medium Consulting Inc.

Our primary focus is in facilitating material improvements to the software delivery capabilities of large-scale Enterprises.  Grounded with a customer-centric "Lean Thinking" mindset, our consultants enable the integration of the entire IT Value-stream as a dynamic socio-technical system.   Leveraging a foundation of continuous improvement, value delivery and waste reduction, our approach to transformation includes the culturally sensitive and incremental adoption of modern software engineering and management practices, agnostic of method branding or community specific body-of-knowledge.  We are known for pioneering the awareness of an organizational system-of-patterns perspective that concretely advises why certain tactics should be used in specific situations.