Consulting

At MindCrafted Systems, we utilize our knowledge and expertise to offer consulting services for managers that are based on a thorough knowledge of the development process, business expertise and teaching skills. This background gives our management consultants special insight into the issues facing Information Systems managers. We provide proven, results-oriented consulting services, including:

	Management Consulting Services

Systems Management Consulting

MindCrafted provides consulting on issues of concern specifically to systems managers. Topics of expertise include:

Setting development standards and guidelines.
Establishing and documenting Best Practices.
Exploiting Object-orientation and UML.
Moving to Web-based application delivery.
Adopting CASE tools and code generation.
Adopting Microsoft.NET.
Adopting relational database designs especially using Microsoft SQL Server.

System and Project Reviews

MindCrafted reviews an existing system or project plan from both business and technical standpoints, including topics such as coding practices, roll-out plans, quality assurance checklists, and training plans. We also perform periodic code and database design reviews in order to instruct a team on how to successfully adopt solid software engineering techniques.

Improving Your Software Development Process

MindCrafted Systems has successfully assisted many organizations in refining their software development process. We target:

Recommending development methodologies.
Identifying tasks and deliverables.
Project planning.
Test planning.
Source control.
Change control.
Developing metrics to measure and evaluate your entire process.

Systems Analysis and Design

Working with your users and your systems staff, MindCrafted can analyze your business requirements to produce specifications from which programmers can clearly produce code. Using CASE technology and the Unified Modeling Language (UML), we can help you produce complete, consistent and correct analysis and design specifications for your project.

Contract Programming

MindCrafted can provide contract programmers and analysts on a temporary or long-term basis, full or part-time.

User Guides and On-line Help

MindCrafted System designs and writes attractive, easy to use and easy to understand user documentation for your Windows-based system or web-based HTML help as well as in hard copy.

Systems Management Consulting

MindCrafted provides consulting on issues of concern specifically to systems managers. Topics of expertise include:

Setting development standards and guidelines.
Establishing and documenting Best Practices.
Exploiting Object-orientation and UML.
Moving to Web-based application delivery.
Adopting CASE tools and code generation.
Adopting Microsoft.NET.
Adopting relational database designs especially using Microsoft SQL Server.

Paradigm Pioneers
	Experience Counts
Our management consultants have all worked as project leaders and managers in large organizations and on numerous large, complicated projects.
As an organization, MindCrafted Systems works to stay abreast of new technological advances in order to understand what benefits innovations might have to our customers.
Practical
As managers, we know the most important task at hand is to produce a system that is better, cheaper and faster. While many solutions might be "cool," they first need to work. We can help you design a system that will make you a hero to your users and not the enemy.