Mentoring

By definition, a mentor is one that serves as a trusted counselor or teacher.  Cimbrian believes strongly in providing our clients the necessary tools and information to better serve their own technology needs. Our staff of professionals will work with your team to develop skills that transcend a singular project to offer long-term value across your organization. Our mentoring programs include:

• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Development
• Process

Project Management

Cimbrian's approach to project management has resulted in an impressive 100% project success rate. According to the Standish Group (2004), 49% of all information technology projects were challenged. In sharp contrast, each Cimbrian project over the past 18 years has been completed and accepted by our clients.

As project managers for your endeavor, our certified staff builds a framework and uses effective communication, proven tools and techniques to ensure your projects success. Cimbrian's project managers work with your staff and vendors to accomplish the goals in an achievable time frame, within a realistic budget.

In reporting project metrics, performance indices clearly communicate the progress and status of the stated goals and objectives. The project manager maintains focus on the appropriate reference points to evaluate any exceptions and manage all changes to the project plan. Whether mentoring your project staff or uniting the efforts of vendors with your project team, Cimbrian project managers employ an effective process to achieve project success.

Cimbrian offers project management services that maximize productivity while increasing overall team satisfaction. Their open communication style, training, and practical experience are capable of delivering a positive advantage for your next project.

Project Envisioning

When a client identifies a problem with business processes and a technology solution is identified, a myriad of groups within the organization may be impacted. Frequently, the management vision relayed does not include a clear understanding of the diverse needs of the representative work groups. Cimbrian Business Systems Analysts help your business bring these groups together to clearly define your vision before embarking on a project.

A Project Vision Statement includes an outline of the business problems being experienced by your organization and describes solutions and strategies to directly address those problems. A vision shared by the entire team focuses all participants towards achieving the same goals.

A Vision Statement saves your organization time and money during the requirements and development phases and serves as an excellent tool for identifying the potential project risks. The Vision Statement's author, the Cimbrian Business Systems Analyst, serves as the conduit providing all parties the opportunity to understand both the business and technical vision of the project. This effective communication coupled with a concise, organized, well-written and well-presented Vision Statement document ensures a successful start to your IT project. 

Cimbrian's approach is to establish a strategic partnership with project stakeholders to ensure that business needs drive technology decisions. As your technology partner, Cimbrian provides a clear project vision and a competitive business advantage. 

Project Requirements Analysis

Effective requirements facilitation involves meeting with our client to ensure that all requirements are understood and documented and supporting those requierments throughout the project lifecycle. Software requirements form the basis for all the subsequent development work. Requirements are descriptions of how the system should behave, or of a system property or attribute. If you are building a custom application, or making changes to an existing system, well-defined and easily understood requirements form the foundation to your project.

By facilitating the requirements generateion process, Cimbrian Business Systems Analysts help you realize your business vision through the technology solution developed. A detailed requirements document provides you with an opportunity to map exactly what business objectives must be satisfied before a line of code is ever written. Most importantly, through the requirement document, the memebrs of the programming team have a clear and unambiguous blueprint for software development.

To ensure requirements are met by the development team, the Business Systems Analyst remains engaged throughout the development phase of the project. Through development, testing and implementation of the system, the analyst clarifies any questions regarding the requirements through continued communication with the stakeholders.

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