Everyday, SPC works with software leaders to realize the full business potential of their development teams and practices. We do this through our core service offering:
If your development organization can benefit from improved product quality, increased speed to market, enhanced team performance and lower project costs, SPC can work with you to make this happen.
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Consulting |
You need honest, impartial advice and answers to your thorniest problems. When to change? What to fix? How much to tackle? What you require is a trusted advisor you can turn to when questions outnumber answers.
Customers trust SPC consulting services to provide this clarity. We deliver practical and innovative solutions to clients' challenges and align them with operational and business goals. Our competencies include software requirements development and management, estimation and project planning, and process change and adoption. Our experience and insights can enable you to improve your development agility and flexibility.
SPC experts and consultants strive to understand your situation, your needs, and desires. They've walked in your shoes before and have a deep range of experience to meet your challenges. Throughout the entire process, they listen to what you're saying and what you need. Look to them to bring you organizational improvements and business effectiveness.
Simply put, our consulting services deliver. We'll get you through some of your toughest problems and deliver honest answers (even the brutal facts, if need be). We focus on solving the issue, not selling technology or "bait and switching" to charge additional fees. You can rely on us to deliver the rapid return on investment that today's business climate requires.
Contact SPC to see how
our consulting services can deliver lasting positive change
for your development organization.
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Skills Development Training |
SPC offers workshops specifically developed to meet the unique and rapidly changing requirements of the IT and software industry through its training organization, SPC Springboard. Whether it's improving software development techniques and practices, enhancing program and design activities, building stronger project management, leadership and team skills, or staying current with the very latest on new technologies, SPC Springboard courses enable industry professionals to meet the challenges of their jobs, improve their organization's bottom line, and build the career they want. View the SPC Springboard course catalogue.
Delivered by some of the best known and most accomplished experts in the industry, our hands-on approach enables participants to take advantage of peer learning opportunities in addition to instructor-lead discussion. Course content focuses on real-world problems and solutions so that our participants can put their new found knowledge to use right away. View the SPC Springboard schedule.
Most of SPC Springboard's open-enrollment courses can be
delivered on-site. This is an ideal solution for organizations
wanting direct access to our experts, more customized course
content and a tailored delivery approach. Read
more about on-site seminars.
Learn from the experts! Contact
SPC about our skills development training.
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Team Coaching |
If you want to get the best value from any change initiative, don't depend on your team's own "trial-and-error" procedure to apply newly acquired knowledge and approaches. That's where SPC's team coaching services comes in.
Our experts and consultants are seasoned, hands-on professionals who work with your organization to ensure that newly learned skills are not just understood but become ingrained in your culture.
Unlike other industry coaches, SPC uses an industry-recognized mentoring approach, developed by SPC expert Steve Trautman, and popularized in his book, Teach What You Know. This method ensures the coaching process is measurable and delivers the forecasted benefits. As skilled resources to your team, our experts and consultants impart their experience and contribute to the output of your organization by:
- Making sure new processes and techniques are properly applied in the context of your business
- Ensuring your teams and their customers have clearly shared and understood objectives and expectations
- Collaborating with your team to produce deliverables that are good enough for the purpose intended
- Establishing a framework for effective decision-making, and ensuring team decisions are well-informed and soundly made
SPC's team coaching is critical to the successful adoption
of any change initiative. It helps you avoid common implementation
pitfalls as well as slow and costly trial-and-error experiences.
Contact us about SPC team
coaching services.
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Executive Support |
SPC's executive support is designed to provide ongoing, custom advice to leaders with senior level IT accountability. Our experts equip CIOs and their senior IT leaders with the knowledge and insight they need to deliver exceptional business results for their organizations.
We know the constant pressure department heads and executives face. There is a never ending requirement to understand evolving industry standards and technology advancements, combined with the need to know how they can best be utilized by development to deliver better business results.
Knowing that CIOs and IT organizations are expected to optimize operational efficiency and deliver responsive service that meets the demands of the business, only SPC's top experts deliver executive support, offering one-to-one counsel and serving as a trusted advisor on top-level challenges.
SPC's executive support offers:
- Trusted advice and decision support – offering valuable insight on best practices, leading trends and custom solutions applicable to your specific environment, so that you can make the most informed decisions and reap the benefits of good and timely decisions.
- Best practices insight – ensuring you and your development team successfully adopts new technologies and leverage best practices.
- Risk mitigation – making the wrong technology or methodology decision can have severe financial and operational impact. SPC experts can help you avoid common and costly mistakes.
Contact us to learn more about
SPC executive support.
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