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Technology Mentoring Services

KALS offers this fairly unique service and the objective of this is to equip your in-house development teams with new technology skills. Mentoring can also be the solution when you are targeting to significantly improve the level of maturity of your in-house team. KALS will design and implement a customized mentoring program.

Process:

Assess the level of skills of the team by technology

Identify problem areas based on historical project data

Assess the level of SDLC and domain knowledge available with individual team member

Create a shadow software project that represents the target competence from the team and get it approved by the client management

Identify the key challenges and priorities with respect to mentoring

Identify and Communicate to client management the possible results that could be achieved and the effort, time and resources required

Based on management approval and feedback develop a detailed Mentoring project plan.

Mentoring plan to include - general technology / process tutorial sessions - assessment mechanisms and support materials as well as

processes

Execute the plan, review periodically and keep the management appraised of progress

Benefits of Mentoring:

It builds on the strengths that are unique to your team

Takes into account past data

Is based on detailed investigation and assessment of skills

Delivers clear and achievable technology and delivery maturity capabilities

Creates Systems, processes and standards that can be used in real life project execution by your team

Better long term self sufficiency in cross training teams and skills up gradation

When should you look at the mentoring option?

You have a good in house team with potential to reach higher levels of competence

You have a software development project in a new area of technology

Some of your older applications are to be moved to new technologies

You are losing development staff to competition significantly