Military Health Services
ShouldersCorp is providing engineering services to the Clinical Information Technology Program (CITPO) of the Military Health Service (MHS), Department of Defense to support acquisition and deployment of information technology from system vendors and integrators. The engineering support assists contracting and product management officers of CITPO with drafting of engineering requirements for procurement, with review and assessment of project plans and deliverables of the suppliers and integrators, with analysis and guidance on technical issues, and with briefings on project strategy, goals and status to program management. Current projects for which ShouldersCorp is providing engineering services include programs for interoperation and data sharing between DoD and VHA, and for management of large data objects, such as images, within MHS's AHLTA system of patient records.

Veterans Health Administration
ShouldersCorp was hired and continues to advise and assist VHA's CIO in understanding the current environment and determining a plan, systems architecture, and roadmap for the future. ShouldersCorp takes a full-systems approach to any problem and identifies and considers the needs of all associated stakeholders. ShouldersCorp recommends approaches that balance governance and innovation. Lessons learned from history, industry, government, and the commercial sector are utilized in the development of recommendations. A future area of focus is the collaboration of DoD and VA, at the VHA CIO level, which will play out in the resultant medical system of the future (replacement of VistA). Recently ShouldersCorp has assisted VHA to design a Product Effectiveness organization. The purpose of this organization will be to continuously assess the business value to be delivered by proposed new products and verify that projects deliver the business value through deployment and operations and maintenance. We have also helped the organization design and implement a competency based development organization of over 1200 developers throughout the United States.

Department of Interior
ShouldersCorp was hired by the Department of Interior to provide technical assistance in the planning of a major upgrade of the internal network and associated workstations, laptops, and specialized devices. We were asked to provide special consideration to the issue of network security and quality of service. This project resulted in a plan for consideration by DoI executives along with an associated implementation budget.

Sungard/Infinity
Dr. Love was asked to audit the development organization of Infinity in early 1997. He discovered a troubled project which he recommended they cancel immediately because he judged there was "almost no chance" of the current team being successful. Instead, he was recruited to run the project, beginning the following Monday morning. 100 calendar days later Drs. Love and Wooten lead a team that delivered all agreed upon functionality with full documentation, on a commercially hosted web site (managed by IBM) in 100 calendar days. ShouldersCorp was founded based upon the successful completion of this project for Infinity (now a SunGard company). There were twelve people from Infinity working on this project two of whom subsequently founded ShouldersCorp.

Saqqara
ShouldersCorp did three successive projects for the VP of Engineering at Saqqara. Each project was delivered on time, on spec and on budget. One project involved a complete redesign and development of the company's core product, StepSearch, which was used by GE Power Systems’ Parts Edge, a Web-based product for searching a huge database of spare parts quickly. Another project developed a customizable catalog system and authoring tool for same. At peak, ShouldersCorp had 16 people working on this project.

ADP
ShouldersCorp was the prime contractor for designing and building an Internet-enabled, integrated payroll and HR system for ADP. ShouldersCorp was completely responsible for the first technical proof of concept, the first two development cycles and progressive technology transfer on three successive development cycles. The project resulted in "one of the highest quality new products ever released by ADP" according to an ADP executive. Over the three years that ShouldersCorp was involved with this project, the company’s staffing peaked at 18 for this project. Several ShouldersCorp employees were subsequently hired by ADP (under the terms of our contract) and remain with the company.

Secrets Seminar (offered by ShouldersCorp)
ShouldersCorp developed a two-day commercial seminar which describes in detail many important lessons learned in commercial and government E-Commerce development projects. This seminar describes how projects can use a light weight, but highly effective development process to deliver significant commercial systems on time, on spec and on budget. Topics covered include project estimation by triangulation, how to achieve exceptional quality, and a review of "software physics". The seminar also provides an "under the cover look" at 19 successful 100 day development projects led by ShouldersCorp over the last decade.

Agile Legacy Reengineering (Software Best Practices Seminar)
ShouldersCorp was asked by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute to prepare and deliver a seminar describing experiences in reengineering legacy software systems using Agile development methods. This introductory seminar will be given regionally several times in 2007 - see www.itmpi.org/events/ for details.

International Equity Risk Management System
Data gathered daily from twenty-nine equity markets allows users to calculate the value at risk of portfolios and to compare the performance of their portfolios against Dow Jones indexes. The project was designed, developed and deployed in 100 calendar days. The details are described in a comprehensive white paper.

Order Management System
Developed an Internet-based order management system, which supported dynamic workflow, real time order validation and interfaces to legacy applications using DB2.

Internet Front-End
Designed and developed a major business-to-business eBusiness application for a prominent Application Service Provider which will serve more than 100,000 companies.

Business-to-Business Catalog
Developed a high performance B-to-B catalog system for use by several prominent Fortune 50 clients whose product catalogs exceed 100 million entries.

Client Case Studies, Application Briefs & White Papers

Internet Based Contract Management System - December 2001
An IT Services Model for 2002

An Internet Front-end for a Prominent ASP

A Distressed Telecom Software Company

The Startup Dilemma: To Hire or to Outsource

Reducing the "Adventure" for New Ventures

On the eBusiness "Bleeding Edge"

Let Us Help Manage Your Risk

On Internet Time

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