Archer Software presentation for the project of Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative

1. Archer
Presentation
.NET
January 19, 2012

2. Plan:
 Company Overview
 Case Studies
 Additional Information

3. Overview
• 12 years on the market
• More than 100 developers
• More than 100 clients served in 11 countries
• More than 300 projects delivered
• Number of ODC established (from 6 to 25 people)
• Processes are in place
• Quality is constantly improved
• Stable and redundant infrastructure

4. Projects by Country
Ukraine Germany Saudi Arabia
Great Britain
1.07% 0.42% 0.10%
0.62%
Estonia
5.57%
Denmark
12.07% Israel
31.96% Israel
USA
Netherlands
Denmark
Estonia
Ukraine
Netherlands Great Britain
20.59% Germany
Saudi Arabia
USA
27.61%

5. Projects by Expertise
Infrastructure support CAD
1.20%Virtualization 0.52% Mobile Security
Gaming 1.34% 0.22% 0.36%
Consulting CRM
1.86%
2.36% 2.20% Internet/Intranet
QA Business automation
2.41% SW integrated with HW
Networking Internet/Intranet
17.81% Business Intelligence
5.04%
Multimedia
P2P
Servers
CMS
development
5.35% Servers development
Networking
CMS
Business automation QA
5.51%
16.19%
Consulting
P2P CRM
5.57% Gaming
Virtualization
Multimedia Infrastructure support
5.87% SW integrated with HW
16.09% CAD
Business Intelligence Security
10.10%
Mobile

6. Methodology
• Agile and Scrum best practices
• RUP
• Industry standards
• Company experience

7. Quality Improvements
1. SEPG initiative
• Started in 2007
• Regular weekly meetings
• Quality of particular groups are applied on all projects
2. Activities
• Processes definition
• Process knowledge update
• Process QA
• PMO
3. CMMI
• CMMI - oriented
• Level 4 is a goal
• Target profile

8. Project management Office (PMO)
PMO
Consulting Monitoring Standards
Projects Executive Summary
Budget Schedule Issues
Business Model
Calendar
AC Planned
Cur Team Planned days of
SEPG mark
Iteration #
Client Project name PM (Actual CPI Project Start Date MS Date Cl HR РМ dev
Size Release Date iteration
Cost) Variance
delay
EasyReader EasyPhoneics KoAr FP 3 4530 0,457 2600 19.11.2007 19.11.2007 6 19.11.2007 90 4,55Cl PM
Remote
MDI Workout ShAl FP 3 4812 0,6 1400 08.10.2007 08.10.2007 5 08.10.2007 100 5,24 HR
Suppor
ACINTA ACINTA MoAl t 4,75 12056 0,97 0 26.02.2007 26.02.2007 23 26.02.2007 0 6,98 Dev
NetPosten NetPosten ToOl T&M 2 3307 0,909 72 02.10.2007 02.10.2007 8 02.10.2007 0 3Cl HR
Medoc Pathway ShAl T&M 2,5 7409 0,97 0 17.01.2007 17.01.2007 19 17.01.2007 2 8,7 PM
Average: 3,05 6422,8 0,5285 814,4 38,4 5,69
Totals: 5 15,25 32114 4072

9. Archer Initial Profile (2007)
Level
5
4
3
2
1
0
RSKM
SAM
PI
PPQA
OT
PMC
IPM
REQM
PP
RD
VER
OPD
CM
VAL
MA
OPF
TS
DAR
Process
Area
Initial Current Target

10. Archer Current Profile
Level
5
4
3
2
1
0
Process
SAM
RSKM
PI
RD
OT
PMC
IPM
REQM
PP
MA
PPQA
OPD
VAL
VER
OPF
CM
DAR
TS
Area
Initial Current Target

11. Archer Target Profile
Level
5
4
3
2
1
0 Process
RSKM
PI
SAM
RD
VAL
OPD
OT
REQM
PMC
MA
IPM
PP
PPQA
OPF
CM
VER
DAR
TS
Area
Initial Current Target

12. Infrastructure
NetOp
• 24/7
• Duties (dev)
• PCI Compliance
Contingency
• Redundant infrastructure
• Servers on clouds
• Premises backup

13. Tools used in Archer process
o Caliber – Requirements management
o Jira – issue tracker
o Producer- company ERP system, reports, EV
analysis
o Confluence – wiki knowledge storage
o Crucible and FishEye – Code review
o SVN – Subversion control and code repository
o MS Project – project management
o CruiseControl.Net – Autobuilds and continuous
integration

14. Daily Reports

15. Standard team structure is as follows:
• Project Manager:
– communication and integration point of the project
• System Analyst:
– requirements clarification, research, SRS drawing
• Architect:
– system architecture
• Developers:
– development, code review, bug fixing
• QA Engineers:
– system testing

16. Lead
PM PM Coordinator
US Coordinator
PM Coordinator
UA
PM Lead PM Lead PM Lead PM Lead
C# Lead
Java Lead
Front end
IT
QA

17. Thank you and you
are always
welcome to our
labs!