DCG-SMS

“I am trying to develop an IT strategy for our company, but I can’t get the board to decide on a business strategy. How can I solve that problem?”

This was the question put by one CIO to DCG-SMS Managing Director, Alan Cameron a year or so ago. In this paper, Alan says, “I had a few thoughts, but I could see his issue, and, crucially, there appeared to be no standard approach. I now know that there is just such an approach – IT-CMF. It’s not a cure-all, but it is a very powerful tool to address just that sort of question.”

Download paper: ITCMF

DCG-SMS Managing Director Alan Cameron has characterized some distinct metrics behaviour patterns we’ve observed into a “Metrics Maturity Model” showing how correct use of metrics changes the way people think about managing knowledge-work such as software  development:

 Download pdf - Why Metrics Maturity Matters

Whatever the terms of an outsourcing agreement, it remains the fact that it is the client’s business that will suffer lost revenue and lost opportunities from a software application’s failure to meet the real business need. This paper explores how quantitative methods help organisations better manage the systemic risk of under-performing software projects and get better value from outsourced software suppliers.

 Download pdf: Outsourcing and Risk