IBM Rational Services

Maywood Solutions Sofware Services for Rational are based on years of experience in helping our customers software developers, with Rational tools and best practice.

Our consultants bring deep skills and experience and can draw from their Rational Unified Process (RUP) consulting knowledge to help you improve your team's software development capability and maximise the return on your investment in Rational tools and best practice.

Our skilled consultants can work with you to identify the highest-value development practices for your project, to educate your team on their practical application, and to accelerate their adoption while minimising disruption to ongoing projects. Our services include...

Assessment Services

Assessment services provide you with an independent evaluation of your software development capability. An assessment service can range in type and scope from addressing your entire software development organization to a single software project. Rational also offers specially targeted assessments that focus on a single problematic aspect of software development, such as the collection of project metrics or the administration of your software assets.

Our team performs an in-depth assessment of your specific circumstances, processes, and/or development environment and gives you the objective third-party insight and recommendations you need to make sound decisions on how to move ahead.

The types of assessment services available today are:

• Software capability assessments
• Rational ClearCase administration assessment
• Metrics assessment
• Development organization transformation assessment (DOTA)
• Software quality assurance (SQA) assessment
• Project and portfolio management (PPM) implementation assessment
• Rational Build Forge deployment assessment

Deployment Services

Deployment services provide a clearly defined roadmap for implementing industry-standard software development methodologies using Rational tools. Leveraging the principles of RUP consulting, these service offerings combine planning, consulting, training, and mentoring to provide a proven method for successfully deploying Rational products and effective software development practices to your team or organisation.

Each deployment service offering follows a defined set of activities, beginning with deployment planning in coordination with a designated project manager from your team. Then with the assistance of your IT department, the computing environment is assessed to determine where each of the software components should be installed for optimum performance, and these decisions are captured in a specification report.