PART-TIME PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING SERVICES

They aren't what they used to be. Today they are able to provide significant Business and Technical Benefits to the Technical Manager.

Half of an engineer, committed to your team and company, can help you in many ways.

STAFF AUGMENTATION: They can bring the needed manpower to the organization that is experiencing "schedule slippage" due to:

• Bad weather, personal or medical leave situations disrupting project schedules
• Staff attrition requiring ramp up time of new employee, causing loss of production
• Internal systems being unavailable, causing loss of production
• New project wrinkles not encountered before requiring some additional support
• Having access to strong technical people not otherwise available or affordable

With technology projects having reasonably tight due dates, any slippage is painful. Whether it is bringing a new Application or Service on-line, or bringing a new Product to market. The right Part Time Consultant can take the burden off of your current staff and help to bring the Project in on time.

TECHNOLOGY INFUSION: Some organizations want to introduce a new Hardware or Software Technology into their Project, but don't always have the right technical person on-board that has worked with it before.

• There may some question as to how well the New Technology will meet the need
• What effect will the New Technology have on your resource and timetable planning
• Will there be a cultural impact on the team and how best to minimize disruption
• How have others dealt with the "peculiarities" associated with each technology piece
• Training and/or mentoring can help team members ramp up for new assignments

Many unanswered questions can add significantly to the Business and Technical Risk of bringing in a new Technology. Meeting our commitments and/or living up to the expectations we set can often determine our success or failure internally and externally.

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Our specification, design, development, and deployment processes are often evaluated for improvement potential. Significant time-savings can be achieved if someone who has done it before can be available to advise.

• Introducing Structured Analysis and Design Techniques (SADT)
• Introducing Object Oriented Analysis/Design Techniques
• Working with Life Cycle Testing Methodologies
• New Documentation Techniques

RISK MANAGEMENT: We put in extra effort to insure that our Clients do not take on any additional business or technical risks when working with Part Time Consultants.

We ensure our Part Time Consultants are geographically convenient to the Client. We ensure there are no "competitive issues", or "proprietary information issues, etc."