Project and Development Lab with Microsoft .NET Technology

The project and development lab is an educational method tailored ideally to the needs of a software project. It maps technology to the real life requirements and exceeding the constraints of normal IT-education it involves all project resources technical or non-technical. The holistic approach gained through such a method pays off reaching a high level of efficiency for the global team and minimizes the 'try and error' phase in the project.
Additionally all business and work processes of the project are stress tested and can be examined for their efficiency.

This offering includes customized know-how transfer via the processes described below, which always are conducted jointly with and based on the feedback of the customer.
 
A development lab consists of three parts:

 1.Pre-scoping

• Team-building with the project lead of the customer
• Definition of core functionality to implement during the lab (e.g.):
  • Use Cases
  • Component Model for an n-tier architecture
  • Relational DB model
  • Synchronization on tools and technologies used
• Set up Infrastructure for the lab
• Preparation of educational material
• Preparation of reusable code components (Lab + project)
  

 2. Lab week

• Monday:
  Educational day using customized topice to bring the team up to speed (e.g. ADO.NET, .NET exception-handling, etc.)
• Tuesday:
  Implementation of specified core functionality, know how transfer
• Wednesday:
  Implementation of specified core functionality, bug fixing
• Thursday:
  Code Complete, Test (functional and load), bug fixing, Creation of Setup program, documentation
• Friday:           
  Testing, bug fixing, completion of documentation, feedback round, Creation of  Lab-CD
  

 3. Project follow up

• Installation and configuration of the implemented functionality in the normal development environment of the customer
• Consulting and reviews at specified project milestones

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