Services

Process Improvement

Strongstep has at the core of its business the process improvement implementation in enterprises, to allow a delivery of service and products with reduced costs, increased productivity and excellence.

Our approach starting point is always the company's context, through the analysis of their projects, clients and their formal and informal processes, then through workshops, construction sets of new processes, aligned with the best international practices and with a highly dedicated accompanying reaches that change.

Strategic Services

Life cycle analysis, strategy of the Organization and implementation of practical measures.
Improvements to the software development process, outsourcing and services.
A global approach model that provides a comprehensive approach to people, processes, and tools.

Technical services

Implementation and refactoring of software development processes:
- Development and Outsourcing: project management, requirements management and definition, design, integration and coding, test management, quality management and outsourcing management
- Services (Maintenance): incident and problem management, continuity and capacity management, configurations, metrics and service levels.
- Models:
  - Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI):
  - PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge by the PMI - Project Management Institute)
  - ITMARK (Development, business and security)
    - Process improvement of product development and services
    - Improvement of other critical processes of the organization: business and security
    - Ideal for SMEs (Small and medium enterprises)
  - Personal Software Process and Team Software Process (PSP and TSP)
  - Rational Unified Process (RUP)
  - and others such as SCRUM, KANBAN (and other agile methodologies), eXtreme Programming (XP), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Six Sigma
Implementation of tools to support the software development:
- Defining processes and selecting appropriate tools: requirements management, test automation and management, project management, management of PMO, service management and demand management
- Some vendors examples: Microsoft, IBM, Microfocus, Compuware and also open source tools.

Certification and Auditing

Implementing processes to CMMI models - certification in Development, Services and Acquisitions.
Joint implementation of ISO 9001 and NP4557 (Portuguese innovation model) for information technology companies.
Project delivery and change certification, formal audits (SCAMPI A, B and C), gap analysis, and readiness reviews.
Evaluation of organizations, projects and products against the degree of compliance and performance practices development, acquisition and maintenance of software services.
The implementation of these activities is carried out in conjunction with world reference institutions and universities.

Consortia

The Strongstep participates in consortia development control and major projects implementation in software quality area.

Customers

Some of our customers: Ambisig, Critical Software, Efacec, I2S, Imediata, Ministry of Justice, Practical Way, PT Inovação, Primavera, Intergraph, K2C, Simple Solutions, Visionway, Wipro Technologies, Bank of Mozambique, Ministry of Finance of Mozambique (CEDSIF), Multicert, ISA - Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, Enermeter, Wavecom and Micro IO.

Some implemented projects: CMMI level 2 and 3 implementation; NP4557 Certification (Portuguese Innovation model); CMMI DEV level 5 implementation, CMMI for Services, process implementation and management tools and test automation; Structuring of the development process and project management; Product certification at the level of quality and innovation; Assessement for product quality and safety; structuring of requirements management process.