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Consulting Interests
Magpie
Applied Technology helps with:
- project and engineering management process improvement
- the development of client staff through mentoring, review and workshops
- all facets of the execution of technical projects
Magpie Applied Technology notes and acts
on fundamental research and observations:
- projects fail ¹ despite competent project management
- no type of project is immune to failure
- A majority of projects fail because of ²:
- poor understanding of stakeholder expectations and requirements;
- jumping to a solution before the problem is correctly understood;
- poorly written documentation and specifications; and
- inappropriate systems development strategies.
- mistakes, omissions and conflicts become increasingly expensive and time consuming to rectify as a function of time ³
Magpie
Applied Technology addresses these problems at the most cost-effective stage in clients'
projects; during the earliest stages.
Most of Magpie's consultancies involve:
- stakeholder requirements elicitation and development,
- functional and business analysis,
- requirements management,
- options and feasibility analysis,
- acquisition and system development strategies, and
- tender preparation, evaluation and negotiation.
We are also typically engaged at various stages throughout the project life-cycle to perform the following functions:
- review of technical contractual deliverables,
- independent technical review and audit, and
- independent validation and verification activities.
As our
roles on projects invariably centre around project requirements
and requirements management, we have provided a short white paper on requirements management here to explain more about what we do.
More Information
If you
would like to work with Magpie in some of these areas, or if you would
like Magpie to help you with your projects, please contact us.
Footnotes:
¹ Failure here includes project scope, cost or schedule problems, or some other departure from stakeholder expectations.
² Based primarily on research by the Standish Group
³ Based on research conducted by Boehm
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