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Being focused on a hands-on approach to software engineering Knowledge-Transfer, Effective Mentor, Inc. consultants work with our clients in the
following Capacities:
- Trainers
- Providing formal classroom education to "explain" the concepts that work in delivering
solutions, based on our experience. Formal training is just the
start and is not a substitute for "doing". As such,
formal training is the primer for preparing your staff to
roll-up their sleeves and "do" with the guidance of our
experienced consultants, who have lived and succeeded in delivering
software solutions.
- Practitioners
- Actively practicing with your staff in a lead/advisory
role for a given project. By actively "doing",
our consultants ensure your project succeeds, while your staff (in the
presence of our experienced consultants) live the experience of what it
takes to realize successful software solutions that meet business needs.
- Mentors
- Lead modeling, development, and/or
process efforts for a given
engagement where initially we, as consultants, may be doing 80-90% of
the more complex work (while coaching your
staff and facilitating their efforts) and over time transitioning work
via knowledge-transfer to where the client team is comfortable
with doing 80-90% of the work. This enables our clients to succeed
in delivering solutions today, while preparing their staff and
organization for success tomorrow.
- For this transition to occur, it takes a special breed of
consultant. A consultant who can "explain while doing", which enables
an effective knowledge-transfer with
object/component technologies, tools, and process, while successfully
delivering a solution, which meets the client’s needs.
A list of service areas to be considered within
the value-added proposition of what Effective Mentor, Inc. can provide clients (in the
aforementioned Capacities):
- Effective
Mentoring & Practicing Consulting on Client Projects (in a lead and/or
advisory role)
- As
practitioners, we will work with your staff to ensure successful
software delivery by leading your staff through the modeling,
development,
and/or process
efforts.
- As
mentors, our experienced consultants will instill the best-of-breed
software engineering practices, while advising and facilitating the
software deliver efforts.
- Effective Training Courses and "Hands-On" Mentoring
Workshops
- Tailored
training to your organization's needs with exercises and hands-on
experience in the following subject areas:
- Model-Driven Architecture for Successful Software Delivery
- Object-Oriented
Analysis & Design (OOAD) with UML
- Requirements
Management with Use Cases (RMUC)
- Iterative-Incremental
(Agile) Development with RUP
- Business
Modeling with UML
- Principles
of Effective Software Project Management with RUP
- Software
Patterns (Analysis, Design, Architecture)
- Introduction
to Object-Relational Mapping
- Refactoring
and Unit Testing (with JUnit)
- Introduction
to J2EE
- Component
Development with EJB
- MVC
(UI) Development
with STRUTS - JSP and Servlets
- Strategic/Technical Assessments
- To
determine client readiness and develop a game plan of action to
transition your organization to the
"best-of-breed" software engineering practices; enabling
Information Technology to realize bottom-line business value.
Disclaimer:
Effective Mentor, Inc. is
not interested in providing the following type of service:
- Becoming
part of a client team as only an additional staff resource
(forever and ever)
–without being in a lead or advisory role, transitioning
knowledge while efficiently delivering a working solution.
- In other words, if you are simply looking for a “pair-of-hands”
to supplement your development efforts, without seeking knowledge-transfer
via mentoring and active practicing leadership, we will likely
pass on the opportunity.
However,
should your needs change –to where you need to effectively coach your
staff and have them be mentored and led by the best in software engineering
practices, while delivering a successful software solution to meet your
business needs, you know where to contact us!
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