Technical Project Management

Should you use Java or Perl and maximize vendor independence?

Should you just stick with Microsoft exclusive approaches that are cheaper and faster to implement?

Sometimes a specific vendor solution is right for you. Sometimes a vendor independent approach is best. How do you know?

You could spring for 8 weeks of training to update your programming staff in all the latest software development tools, languages and platforms and still make a wrong choice, or...

Let SIGNITEK safely guide your staff through the maze of vendors and technologies for a solution that is right for you.

Here at SIGNITEK, we believe using the right tool for the job. More specifically, we believe in

The right tool for the right

Client

	What are your company goals?
	Can you live with the constraints of the GNU public license?
	Can we, in the spirit of object-orientation, budget significant extra time or money for this project so future projects may benefit?

Programming staff

	What tools are they accustomed too?
	Is there time and money for retraining?
	Are they open to receiving additional training?

Project

	Is this a new project? If so, we can more easily choose the products or technology to use.
	Is there money in the budget for a more expensive vendor independent approach?
	Could the project benefit from some vendor specific product or technology? If so, what are the benefits?

Key Benefits

	Your programming staff is guided for optimum performance.
	You exploit the vendors and technology that is right for project and the entire company.
	You don't waste time on sub-optimal approaches that jeopardize you and your company down the road.

Technical Project Management

Experienced developers know the perils of being locked into a specific vendor. That vender gets more and more enmeshed in your organization until you cannot live with them.

Experienced developers also know that many vendors offer very elegant solutions that allow you to deliver solutions quickly and efficiently.

Sometimes you are caught in the middle!

Example: the rest of the company uses an Unix/Oracle solution that you must interface with but your project greatly benefits from some COM (Microsoft) specific vendors? How do you

	Maximize vendor independence?
	Minimize dependence on Microsoft?

Example: management has determined that all new software should be Microsoft compliant. How do you port your distributed application to the the Microsoft platforms? Which Microsoft technology is best for you?

Technical Project Management

Key Benefits

Technical Project Management

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