Consulting Clinics

Consulting Clinics offers project clinics tailored to the needs of software projects. These hands-on workshops use material from the actual project to identify and resolve problems and support satisfactory progress.

Project Health and Prevention

The project clinic approach draws on the distinction between hospitals that treat illness and clinics that focus on prevention, maintaining health and awareness of developments in healthcare techniques. Applied to software projects, this preventive approach helps teams address problems and avoid creating new ones.

A healthy project uses tools and techniques effectively to help the team build the system while helping the project manager estimate work and manage the project.

Tailored Preparation

• Before each clinic, the consultant contacts the project leader to discuss the project, identify problem areas and agree on the clinic’s objectives.
• The consultant assembles relevant lecture material, papers and books in advance.
• Relevant examples from previous projects may also be provided.

Hands-On Workshop Format

Each clinic combines formal lectures, informal discussions and work sessions using material from the real project.

• The consultant identifies project problems with team members and demonstrates how to solve them.
• The team receives guidance on avoiding new problems.
• The consultant answers team members’ questions and explains the best ways for the project to proceed.