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Our Products and Services

The OSQR Group provides a number of products and services, each of which can be used in specific ways across a set of disicplines:

Products and Services Disciplines

Source Code Inspection

Source Code Inspection is an IfSQ Level-2 Inspection of a 1000-page sample of the source code of an application.

Discipline

Use Cases

  • Software Value Assesment
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  • Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies
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  • Repudiation of Inaccurate Claims
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  • Identification of Impediments to Investment Thesis
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  • Input to the 100-Day Plan
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  • Software Due Diligence
  • Disputes Involving Software Development
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  • Development Performance Improvement
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  • Technical Debt Assessment
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  • Go/No-Go Decision-Making
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  • Programmers' Guilds
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  • Company Programming Standards

How have clients used Source Code Inspection?

  1. Evidence in legal proceedings
  2. Project viability assessment
  3. Grounds for an extra round of negotiations in an acquisition
  4. Evidence to support a legal decision for leave to seize assets and garnish bank accounts

Deliverables

  1. Single snapshot report detailing the maintainability of a system, or set of systems, at a particular point in time
  2. Extra calls with software development team, as required
  3. Advice and assistance with incorporation of our report into technology due diligence summary

Single System Code Inspection Pricing

Multiple System Code Inspection Pricing

Inspect, Reinspect

Inspect, Reinspect consists of two IfSQ Level-2 Inspections, each of a 1000-page sample of the source code of one application.

Discipline

Use Cases

  • Software Asset Protection
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  • Proof of Delivery of Agreed Improvements
  • Acquisition Conditions

How have clients used Inspect, Reinspect?

  1. Protect the value of a software asset when further development and maintenance work was taken off-shore
  2. Obtain improvement work free of charge, and other concessions from a vendor when confronted with poor build quality
  3. Defer payment of 20% of an equity investment, and make it conditional upon meeting agreed quality goals

Deliverables

  1. Initial snapshot report detailing the maintainability of a system at a particular point in time
  2. Second snapshot report at a later point in time
  3. Comparison report detailing how the maintainability of the software was impacted by work carried out in that period
  4. Extra calls with software development team, as required

Single System Inspect/Reinspect Pricing

Multiple System Inspect/Reinspect Pricing

Monitoring

Monitoring consists of a series of quarterly IfSQ Level-2 Inspections: in the first year, a 'baseline' inspection is made of a 1000-page sample of the application and every three months thereafter, an inspection is made of another 1000-page sample of the same application.

Discipline

Use Cases

  • Software Asset Protection
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  • Service Level Agreement Monitoring
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  • Risk Mitigation

How have clients used Monitoring?

  1. Maintain a strong relationships with a supplier
  2. Uncover software quality drift
  3. Initiate organisational changes to assure ongoing quality

Deliverables

  1. Sequence of reports at regular intervals allowing the maintainability of a system, or set of systems, to be monitored over a given period of time
  2. Feedback and coaching interview calls with individual software developers after each review round

Single System Periodic Code Review Pricing

Multiple System Periodic Code Review Pricing

Quick Scan

Quick Scan is an IfSQ Level-1 Inspection of a 500-page sample of the source code of an application.

Discipline

Use Cases

  • Second Opinion
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  • Comparison of Applications
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  • Comparison of Vendors
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  • Application Portfolio Analysis
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  • Triage
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  • Source Code Viability

How have clients used Quick Scan?

  1. Sharpen a relationship with a supplier
  2. Identify a "quick-win" in application maintenance
  3. Target resources during a maintenance cost reduction campaign
  4. Reduce technical debt
  5. Prepare for future investment rounds

Deliverables

  1. Single snapshot report indicating the maintainability of a system at a particular point in time
  2. Debrief call

Single System Quick Scan Pricing

Multiple System Quick Scan Pricing

Consultation

Consultation consists of two 45-minute interviews, one week apart, in which an industry expert helps founders to 'bridge the gap' between business development and software development, and identify areas in which levels of competence need to be addressed.

Discipline

Use Cases

  • Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)
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  • Software Development Mentoring for Founders

How have clients used Consultation?

  1. Founder replaced development team when their lack of competence was revealed
  2. Balance struck between development of new features and resolution of technical debt

Deliverables

  1. Two 45-minute calls with an industry expert
  2. IfSQ Development Competence Profile (balanced score card)
  3. List of short term goals

Single System Consultation Pricing

Multiple System Consultation Pricing

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