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Measure. Improve. Deliver.
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If you
could change one thing about your software development, what
would it be?
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DCG Webinar
Series
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Agile
is from Venus, PMOs from Mars
Thur, Aug 11, 2:30 - 3:30 pm EDT
Presented by Tom
Cagley who over the past few years has spent time with many
organizations that struggled with the role of PMOs in their
organization as they transitioned to agile. Agile
focuses on self organization rather than control functions. Tom's
experience suggests that combining the roles of
administration and control with coaching and leading creates
conflict because the goals of these roles are different.
There is a path to support both sets of goals and needs if
everyone can be flexible and no one is building empires. This
Webinar discusses that path. Register NOW.
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How to Use
Fewer Measurements More Effectively
Thur Aug 18, 9:00 - 10:00 am EDT.
DCG's Measurement Roadmap gives software leaders the tools to
align tactical metrics with strategic objectives using a
consensus building approach. For organizations struggling to
measure and manage effectively across multiple lines of
business, this roadmap could chart a way forward. This 30
minute webinar, hosted by Tom Cagley, DCGs Measurement
Expert, reviews the fundamentals of the Measurement Roadmap
highlighting the importance of doing more with fewer metrics.
Register NOW.
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Strategies
and Tactics for Improving your PMO's Performance
Tues
Aug 30th, 2:30 - 3:30 pm EDT
Despite proven methodologies and practices, corporations
continue to struggle with portfolio management, governance,
political infighting and project confusion that impact
software delivery cost, schedule and quality. This
presentation will outline why the PMO concept has not always
contributed to improved performance and how these insights
can help you craft strategies and tactics to raise your level
of project performance and develop a more mature and
effective PMO. Read more and register NOW.
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Three Days to
Better Budgeting, Planning and Estimating
Thur, Sept 8th, 9:00 - 10:00 am
This 30 minute infomercial provides a preview of the DCG
3 day Estimation Workshop which includes
1.
Basic estimation concepts
2.
Impact of the life cycles and timing
3.
Estimation By Project Types
4.
Estimation Methods (Bottom Up, Top Down, Tools)
5.
Complexity
6.
Process and Behavior Attributes
7.
Methods and When They Make Sense
8. Sizing Techniques
Spend 30 minutes with us to learn how the above information
is discussed and taught over the 3 day workshop. Afterwards
you will be able to understand if your organization can
benefit from this intensive but easy to assimilate
information. Register NOW.
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AgileDC 2011
Conference
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
DCG
industry leadership continues as agile adoption becomes more
mainstream. DCG is a sponsor of the Agile DC Conference
and is offering a discount of 15% to our clients
who attend.
To
read more, go to http://agiledc.org/ . On the
registration page, enter the discount code, AgileDCSponsorDCGGuest.
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Does
Fear motivate your organization more than the pursuit of
Value? As a leader in your organization is that important
to know?
 Presented at
the Worldcom SERP Conference in July, 2011.
Harris
Hierarchy of Software Development Support Needs
Michael
Harris and Thomas M. Cagley, Jr. David Consulting Group, Malvern,
PA, USA
 The
Harris Hierarchy of Software Development Needs is a new concept
that we believe adds value and should be included in
organizational tool sets to help managers to identify software
development teams with issues through the prism of a disciplined
framework.
The paper describes the authors' hypothesis that software
development organizations operate at different levels in a
hierarchy of needs modeled on the Maslow Hierarchy of needs. The
Harris Hierarchy of Software Development Needs has four levels
representing operating states of the software development
organization: Failure, Fear of Failure, Control and Value. The
paper describes how the new model can be applied to software
development organizations. It describes what an assessment might
look like for an example organization with an actual assessment
for a real organization. The authors suggest metrics for the
assessment. Finally, the paper suggests events that might cause a
positive or negative transition through the level of the model.
Read the Harris
Hierarchy White Paper
To
discuss further with the authors, contact details are as follows:
Mike Harris, DCG President and CEO, at
+1.610.644.2856 Ext 22, m.harris@davidconsultinggroup.com
Tom Cagley, Vice President, Software
Performance Solutions +1.440.668.5717, t.cagley@davidconsultinggroup.com.
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DCG Trusted Advisor coming ...
Google It !!
Google has
become a verb to mean find an answer to any question.
However, did you ever want to ask a very specific IT question
that only applied to your challenges and frustrations?
Well, the DCG Trusted Advisor is coming and joining this
community means having access to deep DCG expertise and getting
the answer
to the QUESTION you want to ask!
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