ALM Technical Specialist Consulting

Overview

Regardless of whether your business adopts a 'just develop it' approach, or conversely is so 'process driven' that nothing gets finished, Readify can help improve your IT solution delivery process. We help define your path to improvement by breaking down what seems a significantly large and long-term program of work, into the incremental steps needed for success.

Implementing an ALM strategy takes time so the focus should be on processes and practice improvement, not simply tools. The Readify approach facilitates clients align implementation plans with their key business drivers, whilst considering impact on existing projects. We ensure that, whilst tools are an important part of the picture, they're there to support new and existing processes, not replace them.

Application Lifecycle Management Strategy

The Development Challenge

Developing software that aligns with key business objectives is challenging for most businesses. In turn, managing the effectiveness of workflows and the software development presents an even bigger challenge. Many software projects fall behind schedule, exceed budget, fail to meet requirements and deliver poor value to the business.

Maintaining Control as your Business Changes

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) focuses on improving and managing the activities, tools and processes you use to build, upgrade and maintain an application over its lifetime. ALM encompasses everything from initial concepts through to the first release and beyond as you modify, extend and enhance the initial application.

Increase Productivity and Improve Quality

Using ALM will improve and refine your engineering, project management practices and the tooling used to support those practices. Implementing a successful ALM strategy is guaranteed to increase collaboration and productivity within your team and improve the quality of your software.

How the Service Works

Time and Materials Consulting

As a business we want to deliver the best results for our clients, and develop long term relationships. Over the years we've found the most successful way to achieve this through a two-fold strategy: Provide thought leaders in the market, and don't charge for unnecessary services.

Our consultants' expertise guarantees that we deliver with higher productivity than our competitors, and we don't inflate our prices with speculated risk.

ALM Mentor or High Performance Team

We provide many of our clients, already well on the way to optimized ALM practices, with an ALM Mentor as a part time resource. One of our most experienced consultants who guides their development team, empowering them to improve processes.

As Microsoft's "go to" partner for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, our consultant will ensure that your organisation gets the most out of the tooling.

We can also provide a full High Performance Team of consultants, fully versed in ALM. They will work with you to develop your solution using the Scrum Agile Development Methodology. You get the benefit of the Readify expertise whilst still focusing your investments on your core business.

Phases

Ideally clients engage the Readify team at the outset of the lifecycle: Envisioning or conception. However, this isn't always possible, and clients often engage us at a later stage in their development cycle. We're well versed in all phases of ALM, including:

• Envisioning
• Requirements Specification
• Architecture and planning
• Design
• Development & implementation
• Testing
• Deployment
• Maintenance

The ALM Consulting Experience

Our clients include the largest government departments, like the ATO, major financial institutions like Tower Australia, as well as smaller enterprises, with no less challenging environments, like Grays online. All our clients show amazing improvements in a remarkably short time.

What our clients say:

GraysOnline

When GraysOnline sought to re-develop their website, they were referred to Readify to help architect and develop the solution. A team of Readify consultants led the effort to produce this system using ASP.NET with Commerce Server 2007 to build a rich and interactive shopping experience.

The GraysOnline website is a great example of Readify's front-end engineering experience, combined with deep technical skills required to make a site of this magnitude perform.

Stewart McGrath, Chief Information Officer, GraysOnline commented,
"Readify has been exceptionally flexible and adaptable to meet our needs and their core strength has been in the capability of its people".

Readify delivered benefits to the partnership through the full lifecycle of the project in the form of SCRUM methodology coaching, requirement scoping, solution architecture, development and go-live transition management. Use of a strong SCRUM methodology allowed the project to adapt to and deliver upon a complex and changing scope.

"Readify has helped us execute code cutting, architecture, development processes and performance testing. We look forward to Readify's continued support", says McGrath.

For more information about GraysOnline, visit the website at http://www.graysonline.com/

GraysOnline CEO Blog: http://www.graysonline.com/CEO-Blog.aspx.