Riptide has a long history of providing IT Services to the Department of Defense, Civil Government, and Commercial markets. A broad range of the services we can provide are:
Business Process Reengineering
- Functional Requirements Decomposition
- Gap Analysis
- Workflow Analysis
Information Technology Services
- Configuration Management
- Design/Specifications for Information Systems
- Database Applications Development
- Business Case Analysis
- Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V)
- Internet/Intranet/Web Applications/ Network Computing
- Legacy Systems Modernization
- Performance Benchmarking
- Modeling and Simulation
- Software/Middleware Development
- Software Maintenance
- Web-Enabled Applications
Enterprise Design, Integration, and Consolidation
- Information and Knowledge Engineering
- Integrated Solutions Management
- Knowledge Management
- Compliance with Interoperability Standards
- Requirements Analysis
- Reverse Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Software Life Cycle Management
- Technology Insertion
- Test and Evaluation
Education/Training
- Instructional Systems Design
- Learning Management Systems
- Modeling and Simulation
Network Support
- Network Infrastructure Support
- Office Automation Support
Program Management
Riptide uses SEI CMMI Level 3 management best practices and an Integrated Product Team (IPT) structure to manage our projects. We stress customer involvement and structured internal management process to ensure the best results in cost, schedule and quality. Implementation of SEI CMMI Level 3 best practices provides a structured and integrated software engineering and management process that is well defined and is supported with standards, procedures, methods, and tools. Policies, plans, procedures, standards, guidelines, templates and examples are maintained in a web based Process Asset Library and are accessible by all employees. Processes and associated documents are proactively managed for continuous improvement using an understanding of the interrelationships of the process activities and detailed measures of the process, its work products and services.
Project Management Plan (PMP)
Riptides Project Management Plan (PMP) provides project managers at Riptide Software, Inc. with the vision, information, resources, and activities to successfully plan, execute, and control projects. The PMP guides the application of a standard set of software life-cycle technical, engineering, and management work processes, best practices, and a common approach to project management that assists in:
- Establishing the project and empowering the project manager
- Planning and scheduling project activities
- Applying engineering and management best practices
- Monitoring and controlling progress and managing risks
- Supporting the successful transition of the product or service.
Project Development Plan (PDP)
A Project Development Plan (PDP) is developed for each project to tailor the management process to best fit the specific project. The project's organizational structure and all customer stakeholders are defined in the PDP. All team member and stakeholders roles, process discipline involvement areas (i.e. PM, CM, QA, etc.) areas are identified to facilitate effective IPT implementation.
The project management process consists of five basic functions. These functions are applied to an entire project's life cycle or to an individual phase of that life cycle, and may be adjusted to fit the scope of the project. The individual functions are described below:
- Initiation. Establishing the project or phase.
- Planning. Defining a plan, refining objectives, and selecting the best of the alternative courses of action to attain the objectives of the project.
- Execution. Implementing a technical solution while managing available resources to carry out the plan.
- Control. Ensuring the project objectives are met by monitoring and measuring progress regularly to identify variances from the plan so that corrective action can be taken when necessary.
- Closeout. Formally ending the project or phase and bringing it to an orderly close. These functions do not comprise a set of "process" steps to be performed sequentially. In fact, activities within the functions frequently overlap and recycle back upon themselves many times throughout the project or phase life, as shown below.
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