Managing Technology tailors its approach and deliverables to your specific needs. However, most of our engagements fall into one of three broad categories.

Product Delivery
When asked to help deliver a product into the market, our role inside of a client company is typically that of senior contributor and integral part of the senior management team. For many of these engagements we take on a role that is equivalent to VP of Quality Assurance and Project Management reporting to the CEO, CTO or Senior VP of Product Development. Our work frequently involves line management responsibility for building and managing one or more of the organizations necessary for on-going product development and support.

Quality program and software life cycle definition
When asked to modify and define approaches to quality and software development, we research a company’s current sales, marketing, development, testing, support and business practices. We believe, to be successful, quality programs and software life cycles must mirror the business and management environment of a company. In close cooperation with key managers and individual contributors we develop and document appropriate approaches to product definition, development, testing, quality assurance and release. Managing Technology has direct project level experience delivering products using a variety of software methodologies, including various forms of Agile, Rapid Application Development and classic staged processes. We can selectively fashion quality and life cycle approaches that fit a company’s needs.

Software testing and development evaluations and recommendations
When asked to provide recommendations to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of testing and development, we research the current approaches a company takes to quality and product implementation. We interview internal contributors, managers, people that feed information and deliverables into the organization and people that consume the deliverables from the organization. Our review includes looking at the current tools, project documents, communication mechanisms, organization and personnel. We document our findings and recommendations with the target audience in mind.