Clients & Case Studies
Clients
DCG Consulting turns knowledge into value…
DCG client outcomes include productivity improvement, reliable software estimation, consistent offshore software development, CMMI maturity level attainment, process improvement, function point knowledge transfer, trusted software quality assurance, performance metrics, outsource service level agreements, IT risk management, and IT value gains.
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“I would definitely describe them as experts in their field. They have put us in a position where now we can react more quickly to things happening in our business and be more flexible in terms of our approach to producing products. They definitely brought a level of expertise that didn’t exist in our organization. …. We are much more disciplined now than we were before, much more ." - Bob Lento, President, Convergys Information Management
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“...DCG benchmarked our software development organization, identified flexibility constraints that were impacting our ability to take on more work rapidly, and defined a good solution increasing our outsourcing capabilities. With our managers focused on major client initiatives, DCG quickly implemented a discovery and vendor search program. We seamlessly picked up the initiative and drove our outsourcing capabilities from 3% to 15% of headcount. Thanks to DCG, within 12 months we were able to turn a problem without a solution into a powerful strategic and tactical tool. ” - Michael Jones, CFO, Convergys Information Management
DCG's Agile Methodology Class helps advance major initiatives for the Federal Government according to the VA Acquisition Academy...View letter of Acknowledgement
"..The David Consulting Group has been instrumental in supporting the development of our Function Point based measurement program. Their consulting expertise and guidance has provided us with the support necessary to sustain a long term measurement program. We are now in a position to collect, analyze and report on data that helps our management to improve the governance of our project portfolio."
“…DCG had the right blend of characteristics to be our CMMI partner and clearly had domain expertise around CMMI. It was evident they could work with us at the speed we wanted to. Their approach was non-academic and clearly resulted in many improvements in quality around our code. DCG became and extension of our organization instead of a vendor. We were very proud of the fact that our company went from no CMMI compliance to CMMI compliance in 15 months.” - Frank Sanchez, President of Enterprise Solutions, Fidelity National Information Services
Watch Frank Sanchez, President of Enterprise Solutions, Fidelity National Information Services talk about DCG and the fast-track process leading to a CMMI level 3 in 15 months…Click here for the video
“Function point (productivity) analysis work: Just as a point of feedback, Tom, the DCG consulting interviewer has done a very professional job with these sessions. I have so far participated in two and both have been very well led. Tom was able to characterize pretty quickly what went on in the projects. He has a very non-threatening style, and asks very good questions. He finished when he learned what he needed to know so we could get on with it. ” – Mike, Worldwide Multimedia Company
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It had a powerful effect on my Transition Enabling Team at the SEI. Anyone involved in setting goals and objectives to visualize their future, could experience breakthrough planning and organizational transformation if they use the techniques in the "Best Year Yet." - Mike Phillips, Director of Special Programs, SEI, CMU
DCG Training works on the Web and on site...
“Sheila's vast knowledge of software measurement made this class very valuable to me. I now have the knowledge to make our measurement program world class.” - Barry Cole, Choicepoint
“David Consulting's convenient on-line training, was tailored to our needs, and made it possible for our world wide staff to improve our knowledge base and bring us together in a team experience.” - Richard E., Delphi Systems
“There is clearly a lot to learn about FPA and it's obvious it takes practice to become skilled. I know I will be able to apply what I have learned immediately to our ongoing work at our company. I have considered FPA a good skill to have and hope to have an opportunity to increase my skills and perhaps become certified. You create an open learning environment which is more difficult to do via Web than in person. I personally find it easier to learn in a class environment because there is more interaction among students as well as between student and teacher, however you worked hard to overcome that constraint. Thanks for making this topic come alive. I look forward to working with you again.” - Project Manager, Global Telecommunications Company
“Instructor had excellent domain knowledge and was extremely well versed in the subject matter. She provided many study cases and constantly reminded us the rules we need to following and learn. Course content was very well organized. Difficult subject matter in that many of the concepts are abstract.” - Product System Designer, Global IT Services Supplier
"As our group tends to be rather critical, I am very pleased with the results – in particular, that most of the students attending the full training. We anticipate no barriers to applying their FP training on the job. I think this speaks to the quality of our instructor’s skills as a trainer, and the value of a 3+ day session that included counts of familiar projects." -VP Telecommunications Software Supplier
Example of DCG's Agile Consulting Model delivering value
In this short 2minute video, Mike Harris explains how our Agile Consulting Approach helped a client make better decisions for their software development initiatives and empowered the culture toward higher performance. As we engaged with our client’s software development teams to help them implement a software measurement program, leadership shared their frustration about management team meetings becoming a problem because decisions were being made on emotion and not data. It is then we suggested our Agile Consulting Model. Listen now to the rest of the story…
Click here for how the Agile Consulting Model was introduced...
DCG Webinars…More than information—knowledge for change…
"...Your group's content is some of the most concise and valuable I have been able to find; on a par with MIT Sloan, but more practical." -Infrastructure Architect - Application Utility Services, Major Healthcare Provider Information Technology Group
E-mail info@davidconsutlinggroup.com for a short DCG Briefing document that provides more information on DCG capabilities.