OAD Consulting, Inc.

Consulting Services

OAD Consulting provides consulting services in the areas of...

Business Modeling

Creating complete, precise, and concise models of the business is critical for understanding the direction of the company and the part that IT can play in that direction. This is essential for business and IT alignment. We work closely with your business experts to create a business model that can be understood by business experts, business analysts, and IT specialists. The approach provides precision without code, eliminating the standard pitfall of leaving business decisions to programmers.

Analysis & Design

Creating a PIM (Platform Independent Model) helps to ensure a full understanding of the IT solution before applying the underlying technology. Creating PSMs (Platform Specific Models) realizes that solution for whatever target infrastructures are decided upon.

Enterprise Architecture

Understanding how everything fits together and providing patterns and frameworks makes software development consistent and predictable. Creating metamodels of your architecture formalizes that understanding and provides a precise roadmap for going from the artifacts at one level of abstraction to those of the next level. For more see,

Process & Tool Usage Improvement

Understanding and controlling the development process and resulting artifacts provides repeatability and manageability. There are numerous guidelines provided by the industry. But reading about it and doing it are two different things. Knowing what is essential to the process and what is a distraction can mean the difference between success and failure.

To ensure the success of your projects, whether at the enterprise architectural or project level, OAD will work with your team members to gain consensus. We understand that there are smart people on your team with valid viewpoints of their own. We also know that there is no one right way to do things. Therefore, we will work hard to gain the confidence of your team. We never try to force our process on others, but rather mentor your team members and work with them to come to a consensus. This encourages their buy-in, which will be needed to make the project successful.

We will provide guidance on development and compliance validation. The goal should be to make the conforming path the easiest path for designers and developers to take. Creating meta-models of and frameworks for the architecture to be employed provides the path.