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"THE BUSINESS VALUE OF IT: Managing Risks,
Optimizing Performance, and Measuring Results,"
by Michael D. S. Harris, President of DCG, David Herron, Founder of DCG,
and Stasia Iwanicki, Managing Consultant is available now for sale
at amazon.com.
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Presented by Tony
Timbol of DCG and Karen McRitchie of Galorath, this webinar
presentation discusses the 6 essential truths you must know about IT
Estimation and how they affect your project performance. Included is a
brief overview of the SEER FOR IT (non-software) project estimation tool
available from Galorath.
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Latest Blog
Entries by Mike Harris:
Why Function
Points Counted by a CFPS
"Cost of
Quality" - a counter-productive term
Run IT as a
Business
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Recession: do more with less and create positive change
Businesses large and small are
laying off workers or enticing many experienced professionals to take
"early retirement." While this trimming helps the balance sheet
and bottom line, the ones left standing have to shoulder even a larger
workload. It is easy to experience fear during this winter of transition.
"Will I be next?" Will sales improve or do we continue to cut
budgets? When will it end?
None of us has control over
macro-economic conditions but we do have influence over our world of
peers, vendors, supervisors and managers. The key is to determine what is
best for the business in the short run so you can prosper in the long run
when things get better.
Obvious things are done first.
Reduce spending to essentials, cut travel, terminate expensive consulting
relationships that did not provide obvious value and do more on your own.
The not so obvious is harder to imagine. It is easy to be lulled into a
false sense of security that if all the hatches are battened down, you
will make it through the storm.
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Vist DCG's Booth at SEPG 09
San Jose, CA, March 23 - 26
DCG will be at this years's SEPG Conference sponsored by
the Software Engineering Institute and will be launching our Sustainable
Software Developmentsm approach to Process
Improvement.  Sustainable Software
Developmentsm can adapt to various life cycle methods. It
works particularly well in the environments where rapid process
evolution is anticipated such as in organizations using lean and agile
concepts (e.g. Toyota Production System) for process improvement. The
power of Sustainable
Software Developmentsm is that they do not
follow a traditional development waterfall approach but rather follow
how work is done. By flowing the work, Sustainable Software
Developmentsm,
cross the lines between roles within an organization and force the
integration of teams, or at a minimum, the coordination between teams. Sustainable Software
Developmentsm creates an environment
of collaboration between project team members leveraging a maxim of
communication early and often in the process improvement lifecycle. The
teaming approach reduces communication issues, increases the quality of
the product, improves process management, and lends itself to
self-directed teams.
 Visit the DCG Booth (No. 619) at SEPG or call Tony
Timbol at 904-287-0294 to schedule a meeting at SEPG.
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DCG Training
Starting Process Improvement...
Introduction to CMMI
April
13-April 15, 2009, King of Prussia, PA
Price $950.00
Register
NOW.
 This three-day course introduces you to CMMI®
fundamental concepts to help your organization improve their ability to
develop and maintain quality products and services.
This course provide best practices that you can use even
if you do not implement the entire CMMI framework.
If you
are unable to attend the SEPG Conference for SEI-certified training,
contact Fiona
Thompson at 610-644-2856 Ext 21 for
more information. Register
NOW.
Function Point Analysis -
Online Training, Price $850.00
Tues Mar 31 - Fri Apr 3, 2009,
9:00 am - 1:00 pm EST each day.
Register
NOW
This course provides attendees the opportunity to learn
Function Point counting techniques and to apply them through exercises
and case studies. This is followed by a counting clinic using one of
the organization's applications to help participants correctly apply
the rules.
- Apply the Function Point counting techniques in
their environment
- Understand the principles behind those counting
techniques
- Apply Function Points in an overall metrics program
- Develop improved estimating techniques using
Function Points
- Improve communications with the users through
functional metrics
- Apply special counting considerations for GUI
components
- Apply Function Points to web-based applications
This course will benefit programmers,  programmer and business analysts, software, project and
program managers, and quality assurance analysts and managers.
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Upcoming DCG Events
 DCG Webinar: Making
Process Improvement Pay and not cost, Thur Feb 19, 1:30 - 2:30 pm
EST Register
NOW
DCG Webinar: Business Value
for IT Webinar - What Tools should IT use? Thur Feb 26, 1:30 -
2:30 pm EST Register
NOW
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Continued " Recession: do more with less and create
positive change....
The forward-looking leader understands that being
defensive is one thing, being affirmative with positive change is
another. Opportunities for change abound. Reorganizations allow for new
management to introduce ideas that were blocked by older thinking.
Reduced sales increase the pressure to do more with less.
So where does the forward-looking leader start?
With a sober internal assessment based on facts and not
opinion. We work with IT leaders constantly to build a culture of
measurement that can support fact-based decision making.
During these slower times, you may have an opportunity
to leap ahead of your competition by addressing long-standing
challenges and frustrations. We would encourage you to start assessing
your view of measurement.
One method to assess is to borrow from proven ideas. Our
measurement roadmap process is not complicated but it does require
work and courage. We have found it the best mechanism to create
stakeholder ownership in facts that are objective and contribute to IT
value in good times and bad.
For more, you may want to participate in the 1:30 PM Feb
19 DCG Webinar: Making Process Improvement Pay and not cost is now
taking registrations..Register
now -
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