An oilfield services company (Houston; Calgary) — October–November 2012
This client’s fledgling internal software department had a mixed history. One of its internal clients was considering buying a competitor’s product instead of relying on the internal provider. As part of their decision process, they wanted an independent assessment of the software development process, solution architecture, and the code itself. We formed a team of three experts, performed a broad assessment and made concrete and sometimes major recommendations regarding software process, technical debt reduction, and agile adoption.