Software Quality Assurance and Software Process Improvement Services
SQC provides you with strategic consulting services in the areas of Software Quality Assurance and Software Process Improvement. Our support enables diagnosing your current process strengths and weaknesses, developing and facilitating establishment of Action plans to address pain areas, staff augment your resources for SQA and Process Improvement, and facilitate improvement.
Our engagements under this practice include:
1. Improvement Consulting
SQC provides improvement consulting & mentoring that includes the following
 Aligning Business Goals and Process Improvement objectives
Model based Process Definition Consulting (CMMI, ISO/SPICE)
Process Strategy and Model Selection (CMMI, ISO 27001, ITIL, ISO 15504/SPICE)
Process Implementation Support
Sustenance planning and improvement consulting
2. Training and Education
Assessments
Assessments are a diagnostic tool to analyze the current practices in an organization & identify areas for improvement. We offer a full range of assessments, which include
SEI/Carnegie Mellon Authorized SCAMPI Class A, B & C Appraisals (SM) - Standard CMMI based Assessment Method for Process Improvement using CMMI –DEV+IPPD v1.2, CMMI-SVC or CMMI-ACQ constellations
SQC Mini- Assessments™
Quick Looks by SQC trained assessors for progress check
SQC Readiness Assessments™
On a survey of favorable conditions/environment and readiness for formal SEI benchmarking appraisals
ISO 27001 Information Security Audits and Certification
ISO 15504/SPICE based Appraisals – Led by iNTACS certified SPICE Assessors (ISO/SPICE)
3. Consulting and Benchmarking on Measurements & Metrics Analysis Initiatives
SQC provides high end consulting to all types and sizes of organizations in setting up the right measurements criteria both on the product and process areas.
Measuring the quality of processes and products is not a very easy task. Traditionally, various high maturity organizations have defined an organization’s Metrics Program at the initial stages their improvement initiatives. Also, it is important that the data collected co-relates to the business objectives. Senior Managers often find it hard to balance between the short-term project needs and the longer-term process improvement goals.
SQC offers consulting and facilitation on industry methods such as the Goal-Question-Metrics (GQM) approach invented by Victor Basili, and to develop and sustain a measurement capability that meets management and business objectives.
Our Performance Benchmarking and Assessment service ( in partnership with the David Consulting Group (http://www.davidconsultinggroup.com) delivers World Class solutions to clients that want to assess project performance against world class industry benchmarks, and improve their Processes.
4. Software Products and Tools for enabling Software Quality and Process Improvement
At SQC, we empower you to build and implement organizational culture of excellence through process management methods and solutions, complement it by optimal usage of technology solutions and software products.
SQC has a Technology Solutions Group (TSG) that comprises of software developers, testers and integrated quality assurance engineers. This group facilitates a clear understanding of the software industry’s requirements and then implements tools and products. This in-turn enables institutionalization of the processes.
Our TSG has developed and deployed products that include the following:
Abacus – The Estimator® - Estimation Tools using Function Points and COCOMO Methods
Abacus – The Estimator® - Using the Cosmic Function Point Method (BETA release in 4Q2007)
Abacus – Wide Band Delphi (BETA release in 4Q2007
Appraisal and Audit tools
Our customers stand testimony to the success of our suite of products. They have been reaping benefits of improved productivity and better institutionalization of their processes.
For further details, get in touch with us at: crm@sqcglobal.com or Call our TSG .
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