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Business Strengthening

Many software organizations are under great pressure to produce their products with
greater reliability, more quickly and with higher profit margins.
Yet, such products are becoming more complex.
 
 
Tantara has business strengthening services
available to help you increase profit margins beyond that possible
through other Tantara services which improve an organization's
process management, software products, software process and skill set.
 
 
Tantara's business strengthening services include:
 
Outcome you can expect
When to apply the service?
Some of the benefits
Cycle-time reduction:
 Products / services developed and delivered quicker1.
When to reduce the cycle-time of a key process when need to increase market share
When to reduce the cycle-time of a key process when need to be first to penetrate a new market
Benefit of reducing the cycle-time of a key process first to market new / better products and services
Benefit of reducing the cycle-time of a key process on time delivery
Productivity improvement:
Products / services developed and delivered more economically1.

 
When to improve productivity when product (or service) complexity and product (or service) costs are out of balance with the product (or service) price
Benefit of improving productivity less resources needed; hence, reduced costs to develop and deliver the product (or service)
Project CAP:
(check-act-plan)
 Facilitated "team assessment" of project commitments.

Outcome includes recommendations [and action plans] for the project's current:
Assessment focus areas of weakness
Assessment focus contradictions
Assessment focus obstacles
Assessment focus limitations

When to conduct an assessment on a project when  risks are too high to chance project success
When to conduct an assessment on a project when customer and/or management confidence needs to be raised -- e.g., just before a critical review session
Benefit of conducting an assessment on a project project with greater probability of being on time, within budget and meeting requirements
Benefit of conducting an assessment on a project project success
Software
supplier
evaluation:
 Outcome identifies the strengths, weaknesses and risks associated with an evaluated software organization's capability to meet specified requirements and/or objectives.
When to conduct a software supplier evaluation when desiring a systematic evaluation of designated processes within a software organization
When to conduct a software supplier evaluation when desiring to evaluate the risks of entering into a critical contract with a particular software supplier
Benefit of Tantara conducting a software supplier evaluation independent (third party) objective evaluation results to base business and procurement related decisions
Benefit of Tantara conducting a software supplier evaluation improved customer / supplier relationship through improved clarity of understanding
 

1 cycle-time and productivity improvements are without lost of quality;
Tantara's primary focus for improvement is the organization's process (i.e., the steps performed and how people interact; not on the adaption of new technologies)

Testimonial:

"By involving Tantara, we were able to quickly define
the most appropriate software development methodology
resulting in an on time, on budget release of our next major project."
 
-- Dennis Radage, President --
Total Control Products (Canada) Inc., 1994

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