PDSA Reviews. Application Lifecycle Management Software Architecture Application Performance Application Security SQL Server IT Skills Assessment

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1 PDSA Reviews Are you getting what you should out of your IT department and software? Let our Reviews (audits) help you determine areas of improvement in the following aspects of your business: Application Lifecycle Management Software Architecture Application Performance Application Security SQL Server IT Skills Assessment

2 Review and Audit Services Improve your business processes PDSA will review (audit) your IT processes to help you identify potential areas for improvement. Our reviews cover application lifecycle, application performance, security, skills assessment and many other areas. Is Your IT Organization Meeting your Business Goals? As an IT leader you need to ensure you are meeting your performance, security and human resource requirements for your organization. In addition you need to be managing your business compliance risks around HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI. PDSA s reviews and audits will give you peace of mind that you are doing everything possible to meet your business goals. The review you receive gives you a comprehensive report of areas for improvement in your current process. It also contains solid process improvement recommendations you can immediately put into practice within your organization. PDSA can help you to implement these recommendations. Your Business Reviews PDSA has a set of reviews to choose from to help your organization become the top performer you want. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Software Architecture Application Performance Application Security SQL Server IT Skills Assessment Need Help Deciding? Call PDSA today at (714) to discuss which reviews will help you achieve your business goals.

3 Application Lifecycle Management Review On-time and on-budget delivery of projects Every IT shop needs to have an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process in place. If you are not sure if you have one, or if yours covers everything, PDSA will find out. Discover if your ALM matches industry standard guidelines and if your people are actually following the processes. Your Team Effective! The PDSA ALM Review helps you identify the best IT practices to ensure business success. Application Lifecycle Management includes project management, hiring of developers, and standards for development, testing, QA procedures and much more. Our ALM Review presents the following to you: Findings: Is your ALM up-to-date and do your people follow the processes. Reasons: The reasons why your ALM processes might not being followed. Recommendations: Suggestions to improve your ALM. Here is a partial sample of our checklist: Labor Skills Roles & Responsibilities Project Management Practices Design Review Practices Project Status Controls Test Plan Guide Project Management Practices Ensure your project managers know how to start, manage, and guide a software project from beginning to end. Ensure each of your PM s are performing these processes consistently. Project Status Controls Do you know where your project is in its lifecycle? Besides estimating guidelines, reporting tools are needed for developers to track where they are on a task. Are you keeping track of developer s time per task? Design Review Practices Performing a review of your software development process is vital to success. You need not only code reviews, but architecture and framework reviews too.

4 Software Architecture Review Empower your developers with an effective Architecture A well-thought out software architecture will make sure everyone in your organization has the right tools to support your business needs. Developers that have a software architecture in place are more productive and can create software with less bugs. Does your Software Architecture meet the 35-Point Test? We have identified over 35 check-points to ensure your Software Architecture supports your application development both today and in the future. Our architecture checklist is designed to find those areas of your architecture that may be a bottleneck in developing your applications. We also look at your standards, processes and procedures for developing applications. We present a report to you with the following: Findings: How your architecture can cause development bottlenecks. Reasons: Reasons why each item is important to the health of your application lifecycle. Recommendations: Our recommendations describing what should be done to improve your architecture. Here is a very small sample of our checklist: Standards for Development Use of N-Tier Architecture Code Generator Usage And over 30 more items! Caching Library Usage Framework Usage Standards & Processes for Development We look at your existing standards and processes to determine if they are being followed in your organization. We can guide you to create, and manage, the right standards and processes. Software Architecture A good software architecture will assist you in creating re-usable, flexible and maintainable applications. Library & Framework Usage Having a reusable library of classes and a good framework in place will shorten your development cycle. We review your library and framework to ensure that they are being utilized correctly.

5 Application Performance Review Application Performance Affects your Business If your application runs slow then your users and/or customers are unhappy. This will directly affect your bottom line. There are many reasons for performance bottlenecks. We have time-tested procedures to help you find these bottlenecks and resolve them. PDSA develops custom business applications specializing in web and mobile technologies, Do you know the 59 areas that most affect your applications performance? PDSA has a checklist of over 59 of the most common performancerobbing code in applications. We help you find these areas and give you recommendations for fixing each and every one. After our performance review we present back to you: Findings: The bottlenecks found in your application. Reasons: The reason why an item steals performance from your application. Recommendations: Our recommendations describing steps needed to improve or correct your application. Here is a very small sample of our checklist: Correct Use of Variables Garbage Collection Usage SQL Usage Collection Usage Web Application Performance ADO.NET / EF And over 50 more items! SQL Usage We identify and find areas in your application where SQL may have been used inappropriately, or should have been used instead of code. ADO.NET / WCF Services / Entity Framework There are many ways to use ADO.NET, WCF Services, Entity Framework and other data access technologies. Choosing the most efficient method can greatly speed up your application. Our experts point out where improvement is needed in those areas. Streamlining Method Calls The correct use of methods in classes is vital for performance in your applications. Sometimes, just a little re-factoring of code can create a well-performing application.

6 Application Security Review Are your applications industry compliant? Businesses are being held accountable for any leak of private information about their customers. Make sure you are doing everything you can to ensure this does not happen to your business. We point out the best industry-standard practices and compliances that should be used in your applications to secure your business s most private information. PDSA develops custom business applications specializing in web and mobile technologies, Can Someone Steal Your Business Secrets? The PDSA Application Security Review identifies those areas in your application that have the potential to be a security risk to you! Our checklist provides a step-by-step process for inspecting the security of your application. Findings: Any security vulnerabilities in your application. Reasons: The reason why an item is a potential security risk. Recommendations: Our recommendations describing what should be done to improve or correct your application. Here is a very small sample of our checklist: Common Web Attacks Authentication Schemes Credit Card Usage And over 100 more items! Cryptography Usage Cookie Usage Page/Form Level Security Common Attack Prevention We identify and recommend courses of action to validate that you are not susceptible to SQL Injection Attacks, Cross-Site Scripting, Repeat Attacks, and many other web and Windows attacks employed by hackers. Password Management How you authenticate to an application can have many security ramifications. We will check each one and review them with you. Privacy Policies Many security procedures impact your customers and/or employees privacy. These issues may have severe legal ramifications. We can help ensure you are compliant with the most up-to-date privacy policies.

7 SQL Server Review Is your SQL Server Running Efficiently? SQL Server is a great database engine, but like anything if you don t tune it correctly even this engine can break down. We can help you by examining your server(s) and document those areas where you can improve the performance, security and management of your SQL Server. Call us toll-free at PDSA (7372) and ask for Michael Krasowski or David Lefort. us at info@pdsa.com. Is your SQL Server performing well and is it secure? We have been working with SQL Server for over 18+ years and through each version we have developed a complete checklist of what it takes to keep it running fast and secure. We know those areas that give you the most bang for your buck. We help you and your team identify areas that speed up performance and ensure the health of your server. We present a report back to you with the following: Findings: Items that need attention on your SQL Server. Reasons: The reason why an item is important to modify in your server. Recommendations: Our specific recommendations describing what should be done to improve or correct the server. implement each of the recommendations. Here is a very small sample of our checklist: Appropriate Hardware Server Properties Set Correctly Jobs and Maintenance Plans And over 95 more items! Index Usage Monitoring Database Design Hardware We will determine if the hardware you are running is appropriate for your organization. We will ensure that the databases are configured correctly on that hardware to ensure efficiency, security and redundancy. Maintenance Plans The correct Maintenance Plans in place on your servers will do a lot to ensure backups are being done correctly and your databases are running optimally. We will analyze your existing plans and make any necessary recommendations. Database Design A good database design is essential to performance and security. Our experts will perform an analysis of your databases and make recommendations on what you might do to improve performance and/or security.

8 IT Skills Assessment Review Are your developers holding your development back? Our Skills Assessment Review is an interview with each of your developers to gauge each one s effectiveness in the role in which they are currently placed. We outline each role you need in your shop and where each of your people should be placed. Without the Right Skills Your Software Projects Can Suffer The PDSA Skills Assessment Review identifies areas where your developers, business analysts and project managers require additional training. We help you identify the gaps in your IT staff s knowledge in relation to your business goals. We then recommend the training, mentoring or other courses of action to help your team build the necessary skills to meet your goals. Findings: Are your employees skills what are needed to take your company into the future? Reasons: What are the skills that are lacking? Recommendations: We outline a plan for improving skills. Here is a very small sample of our checklist:.net Skills Project Management Skills Inter-Personal Skills Database Skills Requirements Gathering Organization Skills.NET Technical Skills Having the right.net technical skills is critical for a developer today. Our assessment test will give you an idea on where each employee stacks up to the industry standard. Database Skills Every developer needs to be able to work with a database. Developers should know how to performance tune their SQL queries, and create basic stored procedures. Our assessment will determine their skills in these areas. Project Management Skills Identifying key requirements and developing project estimates are two fundamental skills each IT employee should have. We help you identify those employees that need more guidance in these areas.