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About Us. Mark Michaelis Chief Technical Architect, Author & Trainer. Information Technology Services. OUR VALUES. Courageous Honesty. Frees us to pursue the right thing Establishes a reputation that we can be trusted to achieve excellence Guards against regret. Passionate Hard Work.
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AboutUs Mark Michaelis Chief Technical Architect, Author & Trainer
Courageous Honesty • Frees us to pursue the right thing • Establishes a reputation that we can be trusted to achieve excellence • Guards against regret
Passionate Hard Work • What we do is a natural pouring out of who we are. • Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life!
Empowered Leadership • Leadership isn’t about power over others, it is about empowering others • distributing power to others not away from them • creating synergies beyond what your power alone could ever hope to achieve • You can pay people to give their heads but you have to inspire them to give their hearts. • Leaders are catalysts, they speed up reaction between the talent of the team member and the vision of the organization • Referent Leadership
Innovative Excellence Improve: We make it better!
Software Architecture Consulting • Intense architecture engagements • Architecture design diagrams • Use case modeling • Vertical implementation • Security reviews and design • System layout • Scope clarification • Call chain modeling
Reference Architecture Sample Establish Best Practices • Project templates • Best practices • Architecture (non)Coupling • Automated Build • Coding standards • Unit testing • Quality Assurance XAML/ASPX
Best Practice Application Lifecycle Management • Disciplined Agile Developmentturning up the volume on what works • Responsible design • Constant project pulse • Test early and often • Integrated user participation • Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server • Product Quality - continuous integration and testing
Enterprise Collaboration and Content Management • SharePoint Corporate Portal • Simplify Collaboration • Simplify Posting • Facilitate Search and Navigation • Enterprise Document Management • Consolidation of Services
Technical Discovery • Discover clients concerns and priorities • Seek best suited global solutions • Determine: • Performance • Timelines • Cost • Risk • Compatibility with existing projects and plans • Build comparative risk model • Incorporate into a dynamic relational roadmap
Solution Engineering • Combine technical options and timelines into a series of workable solutions • Determine dependencies • Communications • Hardware • Software • Lifetime and obsolescence • Other projects (existing and under consideration) • Prioritize solutions • Cost/performance comparison • Implementation time
Scenario Modeling • View end results of a range of program combinations: • Investigate and compare: • Overall system performance • Likelihood of success • Optimize implementation schedules • Readjust for: • Delays • Cancellations • New technologies • Changing market and business imperatives • Plot capacity v. demand curves • Plot best and worst case for a series of combined scenarios
The Variables Behind and questionable Ready to go