Introducing the Software Development Practice Advisor 

Achieving effective Enterprise Transformation to modern Software Engineering Practice

Two fundamental business problems face Enterprises today related to software development and the approaches or management systems that guide their successful execution.  

• The first is a problem of scale, in which attempts to introduce modern practice into organizations is severely challenged by a lack of bona-fide coaches who are qualified to implement such change management programs.  The norm is unfortunately is to hire an army of newly-minted consultants eager to try out their new money-making certifications.  

• The second problem is one of confusion, complexity and lack of credibility, whereby software delivery organizations must sort out the best choices regarding efficient and effective practice.  The current state of the industry is to typically follow the best marketed approach based on the dogma of a particular "community".  These social groups seem to be popping up all the time, largely ignoring each other and furthering a systemic problem of lack of collaboration and integration.  

Until now, there was no other way; but now Enterprises can leverage a credible, simplified, dynamic, and brand agnostic way to achieve optimal delivery of their software development investment endeavors.

The Software Development Practice Advisor is a patent-pending expert system that leverages Control Systems Engineering to enable the timely delivery of advice and guidance for software endeavors.  It provides credible explanations as to why certain practices work in various contexts, and supports effective change through incremental adoption of practices in a culturally sensitive manner.  

Features & Benefits:

Approach Builder: 

• Effectively a "Coach-in-a-box ® ", expert-level advice and guidance is delivered just-in-time to practitioners and coaches regarding the implications of their software development practice choices based on the culture and context, and System's Thinking analysis.

• Pragmatically enables dynamic, hybrid compositions of modern software development practices, leveraging all prior codified experience agnostic of whether it came from Agile, Lean or Unified Process lineages.

• Rapid assembly of approaches based on standard named approaches like Disciplined Agile Delivery, Scrum, XP, RUP through reusable approach templates.

• Capture of contextual, cultural and approach declaration data such that risk exposure patterns are easily discernable.

Playbook: 

• Effective Knowledge Management for professional teams who need a common playbook from which to execute software endeavors, and who understand the correlation of approach declaration to continuous learning using a "Approach Test-driven Development" paradigm.

• Integration of industry experts who contribute their integration of knowledge and experience to provide unbiased advice guidance which reduces the noise and brings clarity to the sea of Process-ware, Method-ware, Blog-ware, Slide-ware and more recently Social-media-ware.  

Learning: 

• Smart Retrospectives ® , the first approach to organizational learning to go beyond superficial, anecdotal in-flight learning currently available within among modern software development communities like Agile, Lean and UP retrospective practice.  

• Delivery Intelligence to provide pragmatic visualization of the efficacy of project, organization and industry wide software development practice against live on-the-ground delivery results. 

• Continuous re-calibration of the patent-pending System's Thinking meta-model to enable better expert-system advice and guidance.

Refactoring: 

• Facilitation of causal analysis regarding the symptoms affecting endeavors achieving less than optimal performance.

• In-flight course-corrections through the recompilation of a teams playbook dynamically as a result of approach refactoring.

Simulation: 

Coming soon... 

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