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Vector Consulting Services Newsletter May 2011

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Dear customer,

do you recently have the perception being required at all places simultaneously?
Then it is time to get lean. Improve your competences because that's your primary
asset at the work place. Here our offers: Webinar on 24 May and Vector Forum on
30 June. Both are free to join. We look forward to exchanging ideas with you!

Dr. Christof Ebert & Dr. Dieter Lederer
Managing directors of Vector Consulting Services
Your Partner in Achieving Engineering Excellence

Highlight: Free Seminars on Lean Development   ↑

We will show you how lean development and agile approaches help optimizing
development. The impact: More projects can be handled with the same staff,
development duration will be shorter, and product quality can be substantially
better early in the life-cycle. Learn from experiences at BMW, Bosch, EADS,
Siemens and Thales, what is important in implementating "lean" and "agile."
 
Proceed to details on the Vector Forum 2011 or contact us...

Or join our free Webinar on Lean Development on 24. May 2011...

Experiences: Reduce Waste — Experiences with Lean Development   ↑

Current pressure with projects is forcing many companies to focus their
engineering on the essential and rigorously trim overheads. While the primary goal
in 2009 was cost cutting, it is now to shorten project duration, getting innovations
much faster to the market and best utilizing scarce resources. Our overview
introduces to the principles of lean development and shows with concrete
examples and tips how to implement them.

Proceed to our presentation on lean and agile development...

Benchmarking: Product Management   ↑

Good product management is a major success factor for software intensive
products. However, too often product management is insufficiently positioned to
drive product success. This article from famous "Crosstalk" magazine provides an
overview on software product management. We highlight 4 concrete practices
that will boost software product management in your company and thus the
success rate of products in terms of predictability, quality and efficiency.

Learn from our practical experiences on product management...

Opinion: CMMI and SPICE — Enablers for Efficient Engineering    ↑

Maturity models such as CMMI and SPICE are used to improve performance of
engineering and management processes. Slogans such as "CMMI is heavyweight"
or "efficient development demands agile practices" have dilluted the real value of
maturity models. Our white paper shows from a real case study how to use CMMi
and SPICE to boots engineering efficiency.

Read our experiences on using maturity models for efficient development...

Learn more on our CMMI related activities or participate an upgrade training on CMMI 1.3...

Humor: Dilbert and Causal Analysis    ↑

A thorough analysis reveals the causes of problems. But where to begin the
analysis with? Take a minute and enjoy Dilbert's observations to an "effective" root
cause analysis.

Watch the fun video...

Events:     ↑

Looking for trainings and workshops on engineering and management topics? We offer a broad variety, either at our worldwide Vector training centers, or inhouse at your place...

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