Geoscience & Monitoring Consulting services
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Introductory consultation
Looking to develop a software solution but not sure where to start? Need help in defining, planning or executing your next project? Need to understand how to deliver a solution to satisfy your users?
Problems
Diverse issues can arise during the development of a solution and its delivery: from the definition of the right project scope to the understanding of the users’ requirements and needs, up to the solution validation and delivery.
Solution
Managing solution development and delivery projects requires expertise, experience and common understanding across a multidisciplinary team. It is fundamental to involve all diverse stakeholders: users, designers, developers and testers. Each step needs to be managed carefully to ensure its success and viability.
Each project is unique and requires a balance between the methodology and the specific constraints. Following a methodology helps to keep the cap on the objectives while accessing some tools or best practices.
Objectives
Let’s analyze and define the objectives of your project. Let’s understand the resources and constraints of the development. Let’s explore the acceptance criteria for the project success.
Following project management practices, we clarify your project scope and objectives together with the assessment of the project resources and constraints in terms of time, budget and quality.
Through the planning, we organize the steps and actions to progress and continuously align the efforts and results toward the final delivery objective.
Consulting support
• 3 Meetings of 60 min to describe current needs and constraints, to explore options and solutions, to define objectives and plans
• Definition of the project vision and team mission
• Analysis of activities and project objectives
• Preparation and research activities relative to options and objectives
• Report to summarize lessons learnt during our sessions
Planning & Testing session
Let’s examine how to plan tests, their types, and frequencies. We set together the tools to assess system stability, maturity and performance.
Problems
Your solution development is ongoing, but you need to understand when the solution is ready to be deployed? Some users’ feedback is not as positive as you would expect? Some stability issues are observed and reported? Your development team has the impression to have to choose between bug fixes and feature implementation?
Solution
Maximize Solution Quality and Development Velocity by setting and executing correctly the testing of your solution. It is key to ensure its quality, a timely go-to-market and an activity growth, while optimizing the solution development velocity.
This solution is tailored for technical teams with need to plan and execute testing activities in order to assess their solution maturity, stability and performance. Development of technical objectives require a detailed, continued and evolutive focus on tests to properly monitor the solution development and its quality. Testing your solution is essential for your technical teams and your activity growth.
Objectives
The results of this service start with a definition of the testing objectives with clear success criteria and key performance indicators for the developed solution. Then, continuous tests with proper reporting and data analysis allow better prioritization of technical tasks and tighter links with strategic decisions for an optimum solution.
Finally, the indicators monitor the product development giving over time the insight needed to deliver with confidence the required system and tools.
Consulting support
• 3 Meetings of 60 min to describe current needs, to explore options and solutions, to define testing plans and objectives with development team
• Analysis of solution features and characteristics
• Analysis of acceptance criteria
• Preparation and setup of testing tools, frequency and schedule
• Report to summarize lessons learnt during our sessions
Monitoring solution quality
Let’s monitor the solution quality to continuously assess your system maturity and stability.
Problems
Your solution development and tests are well set up and are proceeding well. However, you need to free some time to focus on new priorities, while maintaining the focus on the solution validation. You need to continuously get a clear understanding on the criteria of performance to assess your solution quality.
Solution
The solution is to set up automatic tests and/or to continuous test based on pre-defined scripts with clear and agreed acceptance criteria. The test results update a dashboard to follow up the solution production development with time. This solution is tailored as a function of the tools used by the software development team. The idea is to stick as close as possible with the process used by the developers, yet to provide a graphic summarizing the daily update of the solution development process. The solution is to perform the breakdown of the fonctions to monitor as well as the criteria of maturity, stability and performance. Once these criteria are defined, the dashboard is done to be automatically or regularly updated.
Objectives
The results of this service start with a definition of all the fonctions to assess along with the acceptance criteria for the maturity, stability and performance. The continuous tests and automatic reporting are set up to feed a dashboard in order to provide a common overview shared by the entire team.
Consulting support
• 4 Meeting of 60 min
To explore current method and tools used by the software development team. In addition, agreement on how issues can be raised during test phases, how they can be reported and documented.
To define features to test and get available documentation
To review test scripts
To review acceptance criteria
• Analysis of solution features and characteristics as well as acceptance criteria
• Preparation and setup of testing tools, frequency and schedule along with dashboard.
• Testing and Continuous Testing with dashboard updates
• Report to summarize lessons learnt during our sessions
Documentation & Training
Missing user documentation and training material to smooth the solution delivery and commercialization? The idea is to provide the relevant information and knowledge to ensure proper knowledge transfer and training documentation to ensure smooth solution adoption.
Problems
Need to provide user documentation and training material for your users in order to optimize the development and delivery performance? Lacking a technical writer for a specific need? Need to put in place some useful material in order to get on board better your users?
Solution
Provide know-how in documenting solution interfaces and user workflows with documents, diagrams or videos, which can guide your users to get on board faster. In addition, user documentation goes hand in hand with solution improvement: it requires close communication with the development team in order to capture as early as possible issues and enhancement requirements.
Objectives
Provide the training material relevant for your team and users with some videos, documents or web sites. Deliver training sessions for effective user onboarding.
Consulting support
• Meetings of 60 min to explore current solution features and user needs
• Preparation and setup of documentations
• Review of documentations
• Maintenance of documentations with solution update
• Delivering training sessions
Support tender submissions
Let’s speed up your tender submission and process. Take advantage of the experience and knowledge of a geoscience expert for your next tender submission!
Problems
Need to get extra support to read through the tender materials and our resource capabilities in order to understand the interest for the tender submissions? Need some help in defining the right resource profiles needed to fulfill the tender requirements? Need to get geoscience knowledge to better understand the feasibility and risks of such tender with respect to your resource availability?
Solution
Provide expertise in geoscience to give you insights and further understanding of the requirements to fulfill. Provide experience in screening resources to match skills and requirements. Provide a cost estimate of the required activity. Help you in delivering your tender submission in time.
Objectives
Provide required support to get your tender submission on time with the best quality.
Consulting support
• Meetings of 60 min to explore tender objectives and timeline along with all required documents.
• Analysis of the documentation and resource portfolio
• Update of the required documentation
• Review of the documentations as required until submission time.