Quantum Leap Methodology For IT

• Rapid Application Development
• Increased Quality & User Satisfaction
• Proven & Easy To Deploy

For 20 years Kalman Saffran Associates. (KSA) has used and refined a methodology that enabled it to develop advanced applications for industry leading "Fortune 100"  companies significantly faster than they could themselves.  Now this methodology is being offered for sale.  By showing our customers how to develop more rapidly, and produce more innovative and customer-responsive applications, KSA has demonstrated the competitive advantages of its revolutionary and easily implemented proprietary application development system. 

Since the lifeblood of virtually every information technology organization today is new application development, true leaders are those who consistently introduce new application advances at a rapid pace, and keep them coming.  When approached scientifically, this can even be done within significantly shorter application development-to-deployment cycles.  Perform this feat again and again and your company breaks away from the pack, opening up a long, powerful lead and greatly expanding overall company value.

The methodology that will help a company achieve all this represents a quantum leap in terms of both process and results.  KSA's Quantum Leap Methodology For Information Technology (QLM-IT) system, offering a remarkable set of processes, techniques, forms and other implementation aids we've been testing and developing with some of America's leading IT organizations, provides just such a breakthrough approach. 

Formula For Radical Improvement & Fast Development Quantum Leap Methodology For IT (QLM-IT)

Based upon fundamental concepts such as consistency, correctness, completeness, precision, predictability, verification and repeatability, the QLM-IT business-based approach, when applied to financial, schedule, and application considerations, achieves the optimal combination of budget, timeframe and application innovation a company desires.  KSA invented this world-class application development system by observing and fully integrating and extending the best practices of the most successful companies as well as introducing several of its own new and innovative ground-breaking processes.  As a result, KSA's clients now enjoy significant advantages over companies using traditional application development methodologies, including:

1.  Financial Benefits of QLM-IT:
 

• Additional revenues / profits from offering services early
• Reduced application development costs by as much as 50%
• Increased corporate efficiency by earlier deployment of more efficient systems
• Organizational efficiency gains from offering early deployment of new systems
• Ability to charge higher margins for services sold externally by upping one's market position
• Higher return within a shorter payback period (ROI can be in thousands of percent, payback in less than a year)

• Results are assured because QLM-IT is proven 
• Effects can be seen almost immediately because QLM-IT is fast
• Applications developed through QLM-IT have a major effect on a company because QLM-IT's results are high impact
• QLM-IT is easy to deploy (via frameworks, checklists, and templates)
• QLM-IT is easy to control
• QLM-IT is easy to understand

• Reduce your application development interval by as much as one-half
• Free up personnel for other projects by reducing the effort and associated personnel requirements on any given project 
• Increase application quality
• Eliminate major development iterations due to defects
• Remove your backlog

QLM-IT is a complete lifecycle system for application development.  It addresses all phases of the lifecycle from application concept to deployment.  It is tailored for information systems development in the Financial Services, Insurance, Banking and Manufacturing industries.  The QLM-IT system addresses project planning, estimating and management, staffing / resource planning, and financial planning and control as well as application development.

Who is KSA?   Why are we different from other companies?

Over the past 20 years KSA has undertaken over 3000 projects (in application and new product development) for over 50 mostly "Fortune 100" companies in both the medical, financial services, insurance, banking and high tech (such as telecom, datacom, CATV, computers). As a consequence of our QLM-IT procedures and implementation aids, our client companies benefit from our involvement because we: 

• Identify a company's outmoded application development assumptions and procedures via our comprehensive review of existing application development processes
• Expedite application development and deployment with our seasoned, objective third party partner analyses
• Reduce the critical path interval when our clients use us for outsourcing· 
• Enhance consistency and effectiveness company-wide by deploying QLM-IT across all departments
• Customize internal application development processes by tailoring QLM-IT to specified areas, e.g., analysis, specifications, verification, etc.
• Keep corporate and business units at the highest levels up-to-date on application development progress and needs with our delivery of ongoing presentations and reports

QLM-IT system coverage begins with the concept / feasibility phase of the application development lifecycle and continues right through the hand-off to deployment. Specifically QLM-IT covers:

1)   Project lifecycle / management including:

• Project analysis (alternatives, tradeoff) and 
• Project planning (specification or requirements document, estimates, schedule, roles and responsibilities, resources, project control, remedial action)

• Everything from conceptualization and feasibility through specifications, architecture and interfaces, detailed design, design verification, integration, testing, training and support

Guiding QLM-IT are powerful methodology concepts and implementation aids that other application development systems typically ignore, such as:

Concepts:

• The Law of Consistency, i.e., the accuracy and precision of the output can be no greater than the accuracy and precision put in
• The Law of "Greatly Diminishing Returns," i.e., always execute in strict priority order - or you will obtain less--than--optimal results
• Remembering to design quality in rather than test it out
• Design for testability - throughout and from the beginning
• Define the problem fully at the beginning - this typically gets you halfway to a solution before you even begin!
• Constant analysis of alternatives and tradeoffs across technical, schedule and financial domains 
• "Zero" defects at application integration time - root out problems early 
• Simplify, simplify, simplify! - don't overlook simple solutions; they are often the best
• Always start verification on Day One - everything requires verification
• "Make vs. Buy" Analysis - make objective decisions unclouded by the Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome
• Involve the customer in all major decisions/reviews
• Strive for maximum efficiency (no false starts, no digressions, no iterations)
• Phase everything - allows complex problems to become manageable
• Don't serialize - parallelize! - pipeline tasks to minimize overall duration - remove dependencies

• QLM-IT's comprehensive, integrated methodology with stratified, easy to follow checklists / templates (others use more scattered approaches)
• Estimates based on factual, complete and accurate data collection / analysis, rather than natural, though typically inaccurate human optimism 
• Increased attention paid to front end of the development process (others typically emphasize more attention paid to the back end)
• The most thorough specifications procedures result in fewest design iterations and customer disappointments 
• Effective staffing procedures ensure a correct task/skill match-up
• Critical path methodology (most companies ignore this altogether)
• Closed-loop approach (most companies employ open-loop techniques) - feedback is essential to prevent runaway conditions
• Unsurpassed verification procedures (this is a key QLM-IT strength)

KSA's Quantum Leap Methodology For IT enables our clients to compete more effectively and run more efficient and profitable businesses.  It is based on viewing multidimensional business problems in a scientific, analytical context.  It is straightforward to implement.  Once applied to financial, schedule, and application considerations, QLM-IT achieves an optimal combination of budget, schedule and application attributes for our client companies.

Pricing for QLM-IT begins at $25,000.  Programs are custom tailored to the needs of each company.

KSA's QLM-IT thus creates breakthrough application development results faster, via methods that are less costly, of consistently higher quality and which can be replicated.  

Let KSA show you how QLM-IT will produce similar results for your company. Call us today for a complimentary appraisal and more details.