How SOI consultants are different
We enjoy
consulting!!! A crazy thing to admit...but
completely true, we enjoy the grinding
hours, impossible deadlines, and ubiquitous
“people problems”. We also enjoy delivering
great design and user experiences by
exploiting new technology.
At Sphere we select talented and friendly
people to be our consultants and train them
to execute other people’s agendas with a
maximum “sphere of influence”. Great
consulting touches many things and is never
limited to a single technology or task. Our
premium consulting service will fulfill your
agenda while helping your people adjust to
new technology, skills, and improved
techniques.
Great consulting is not easy and we put a
lot of effort into delivering a quality
service:
First,
our consultants know when to turn up
the horsepower as “star
contributors” and go hands-on to
deliver results. We also know when
to suppress the star-contributor DNA
and achieve our results through
others. Our consultants can channel
their talents and experience through
your staff by influencing, teaching,
and leading by example.
Second,
our consultants listen. The best
consultants listen intensely to what
you are asking for and work within
your framework to discover and
accomplish what you need. Our
consultants don’t have their own
agendas; they execute yours with
every amp of energy. This requires
exceptional listening skills.
Third,
our consultants are experts. When it
comes down to it, that’s what
clients pay for. Lots of people are
“good” at a subject but only a few
rise to the level of expert or
master. We produce exceptional
results on demand.
Fourth,
our consultants radiate
professionalism in their work,
conduct, and grasp of the big
picture. Success depends on trust
and trust begins with loyalty,
professionalism, ethics, and a
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Special Sauce
“SOI Sauce” is
our term for adding excellence throughout
the company to differentiate ourselves and
provide uncommon value.
We stay ahead of competitors in our
application of the latest technologies and
practices by carefully integrating each
practice and mixing it with what has been
known to work. Any competitor can write a
simple Use Case or capture a requirement,
but hire us when you want excellent
requirements and outstanding product design.
Not every competitor will blend requirements
with concept-driven product design. They
should, but they don’t. That’s SPECIAL
SAUCE!
As another example, we use abstraction and
dependency inversion in our implementations
to create architectural “seams” that support
test automation and loose coupling. Not
every competitor will ensure independently
testable services and components. They
should, but they don’t. That’s SPECIAL
SAUCE!
Special Sauce extends to everything,
including consulting itself.
Our Practice Areas
We only have a few practice areas -
primarily because it is so difficult to
maintain expertise. The practice areas we
list here are those that we as a company are
highly skilled in:
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- Product Design (we have fantastic
product designers)
- Requirements (a unique and
high-power approach to sourcing)
- Software Architecture
(world-class, both enterprise &
application)
- Test Automation (pushing limits of
Agile-inspired system test)
- Application Development (.Net and
Java platforms)
- Enterprise Architecture (SOA and
various interop technologies) |
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