Project Consulting – What can we do for your project?
			Technologies and process models in system and software development are constantly changing. Tough deadlines and budgets, as well as intense pressure to succeed, ask for assignment of highly-trained specialists. Individuals, that are able to think outside the box, do not lose sight of the big picture, and can work with the most unique and diverse people and goals.In short: Consultants or teams of consultants that understand your needs fully and are able to fill them. Our consultants help you to develop technical, non-technical and commercial software and/or systems in a successful and cost-effective way, and ultimately, to fulfil your contract. We support you from requirements analysis, through modelling, architecture and design, to test and final inspection based on your (functional and non-functional) requirements.
	know-how		As our customer you will benefit from our specialist know-how:
			> Natural language requirements analysis (elicitation techniques for requirements, techniques for phrasing requirements and semantics, extraction of accepance criteria, validation, delta requirements...). > Requirements management (assigning attributes and categories, traceability, re-use of requirements, change management, tool evaluation and appliance...). > Appliance of the UML > Risk management, contract management, prototyping, implementation of requirements engineering and managent in your company > Employment of object oriented methods and technologies in analysis, architecture, and design.
	offered services		Examples of our offered services:
			> Analysis of your requirements engineering process and optimisation thereof, > Creation and/or review of requirements specifications, > Introduction of a requirements engineering process and REM methodology in your company, > Unifying different REM processes from different business areas in your company, > Quality assurance for your analysis documents, > Business process analysis and modelling, > Creation of guidelines for architecture, > Analysis of existing architectures and optimisation thereof, > Product line support by means of the UML, > Transformation of analysis models into design models, > Appliance of design patterns, and more.
			Consulting is always a very individual and unique process. Feel free to have a look at our branch-specific project reports or send an e-mail to info@sophist.de, to let us know which deficits you see in your projects. We will approach you as soon as possible with concrete suggestions!