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HOW WE DO IT
COLLABORATIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Consistent success comes from studying reasons for failure. Past surveys by the The Standish Group, summarized below, highlight the following barriers to project success:
  • lack of end-user or customer input
  • incomplete requirements planning
  • mismanagement of requirements changes
  • lack of business process knowledge
  • resource shortages
  • lack of ownership
  • unrealistic goals or time lines


RATIONAL UNIFIED PROCESS™ »

To surmount these problems, Market ConsulTeksSM uses an abridged version of the well-known Rational Unified Process as its project management methodology. This tailored approach emphasizes:
  • the importance of establishing a client-side project manager to work closely with our own. This individual helps drive decisions and obtain any needed resources.
  • frequent deliverables, providing early value and confirming satisfaction with all aspects of the development process, including training.
  • structured requirements gathering and disciplined project documentation.
    Requirements are linked to broader corporate goals and feed an ROI analysis.
  • early identification and mitigation of risk.
    If there's a key system that may be difficult to get data from, we confront that problem sooner rather than later.
Your business knowledge and our experience in marketing, finance and technology converge to create strategies that are practical to execute.


CROSS INDUSTRY STANDARD PROCESS FOR DATA MINING
(CRISP-DM) »


Our data mining and—to a lesser extent—data warehousing projects incorporate the CRISP-DM methodology within RUP's larger and more detailed framework. CRISP-DM's 'process model' is characterized by five phases:
  • business understanding
  • data understanding
  • data preparation
  • modeling
  • evaluation
  • deployment
Contact us for further information on these processes and a boilerplate CRISP-DM Microsoft Project® Plan!
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