Cutter Consortium
Cutter Consortium, LLC offers high-level advisory and publication services, on-site assessments, consulting, and training to help organizations forge solutions to the IT challenges they face. What is unique about the Consortium is that its products and services are provided by the top thinkers in IT today -- a distinguished group of internationally recognized experts committed to providing top-level, critical, objective advice. They provide all the written deliverables and do all the consulting. We don't use seniors to sell the work and then send in junior staff to do it. We have no juniors, only gurus.
www.cutter.com

 

Rally Software
Rally Software helps organizations perfect the art of software development through Agile and Lean practices. Agile development practices are quickly becoming a mainstream approach to software development because they shorten development cycles, minimize risk and help better prioritize features and customer requests. Rally is the #1 partner for Agile success through its family of products, coaching and community support. Rally helps software organizations of all sizes incrementally adopt Agile practices to shorten their development cycles and collaborate across distributed teams and silos. Rally's on-demand Agile lifecycle management products were honored with three-time Jolt Product Excellence Awards (the industry's Oscars) in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and currently support over 300 corporate customers and 12,000 subscribers in more than 30 countries. Rally's end-to-end solutions for Agile development also include: Agile University, the largest online source for Agile training, and Agile Commons, the largest collaborative Web 2.0 community dedicated to advancing software agility.

Rally's Agile products, online training center and Web 2.0 portal enable customers to successfully adopt Agile practices from product idea to delivery.
www.rallydev.com

 

Vantage Partners
Vantage Partners works with the world's leading companies to institutionalize the capability to effectively negotiate, build and manage critical relationships. Vantage Partners provides relationship management consulting services in two arena. The first is broad capability building for organizations that wish to implement standard approaches for managing their customer, vendor or partner relationships. This work entails building relationship management processes and supporting tools, enabling those processes and tools with IT infrastructure, providing skills training, and designing and leading change activities. The second arena is enabling discrete partner relationships. In this area Vantage works at the interface of specific partnerships, helping both partners to jointly launch, manage, audit and adjust their relationships.

Vantage works with the world's leading global companies in many industries, including information technology, financial services, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, entertainment, petroleum and minerals, professional services, and manufacturing.
www.vantagepartners.com

 

Triad Consulting
Triad is a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We specialize in helping clients navigate complex problems where important values are at stake and emotions run high. Whether it's implementing change in corporate culture, assisting a community to confront divisive issues, or coaching executives in negotiation strategies, Triad can help. The theory underlying our approach was developed from fifteen years of work at the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School. Keeping an eye on the simple question "what works?" we developed a framework and approach for engaging in difficult conversations more effectively. The approach carries a powerful punch; it has already helped countless businesses, families, organizations, and communities.
www.triadcgi.com

The Atlantic Systems Guild
The Atlantic Systems Guild is a consulting organization specializing in the complex processes of system building, with particular emphasis on the human dimension. The seven principal members of the Guild are all book authors, consultants and lecturers. They are also frequent contributors to such journals as IEEE Software, Cutter IT Journal, and the Journal of Object Oriented Programming, among others. The Atlantic Systems Guild is a guild in the traditional sense - an organization of master craftsmen. Each principal is an independent professional. You deal with a principal: someone who has earned his or her place in this select band by being someone with a special talent. The Guild measures its success by your success. We offer training that has proven to be effective, and used, by client organizations. We offer techniques that are practical. We offer consulting that time and again has been called the single most effective factor on successful projects. www.systemsguild.com

 

Master Systems Inc.
There are no shortages of good ideas in software management and engineering, but few are practiced. We focus on deployment, implementation, transition: putting best practices into actual practice. We concentrate on selecting those best practices best suited to our clients and then helping them change in order to deploy those practices. We offer advisory services related to software improvement. Our specialty is helping organizations change the ways they work, particularly with respect to model-based improvement initiatives (SEI CMM/CMMI, ISO 9000, ISO 12207, Baldrige). We use a mutual adaptation approach: the organization has to change to accommodate the technology, and the technology has to be tailored to accommodate the organization.
www.master-systems.com

 

TPI
TPI is the world's largest sourcing advisory firm. Since its inception in 1989, its mission has remained the same: to help corporations throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific make informed, lasting and substantial improvements in their performance through the use of sourcing. Corporations worldwide choose TPI as their premier source to evaluate, negotiate, implement and manage their information technology and business process sourcing initiatives. Clients' conviction in TPI has helped it maintain market leadership: more than 80 percent of the company's revenue derives from repeat clients and referrals. To date, it has advised corporations on more than 600 sourcing transactions with a total contract value of more than US$350 billion.
www.tpi.net

 

R.S. Pressman & Associates
R.S. Pressman & Associates, Inc. has developed a reputation for its pragmatic approach to software process improvement. As a company, we focus exclusively on software engineering - providing cost-effective products that will help you develop a more mature software process. The company was founded by Roger S. Pressman, an internationally recognized consultant and author in software engineering. For over 30 years, he has worked as a software engineer, a manager, a professor, an author, and a consultant, focusing on software engineering issues. Dr. Pressman specializes in helping companies establish effective software engineering practices. He is the developer of http://pa/index.html Process Advisor, the industry's first self-directed software process improvement product and http:/ese/index.html Essential Software Engineering, the industry's most comprehensive video curriculum in software engineering.
www.rspa.com