The MaxUML CASE Tool from SoftCASE Consulting

The MaxUML CASE Tool

MaxUML - a Platform for Change

In today's changing and highly competitive world flexible businesses are successful businesses. This philosophy needs to permeate all aspects of a modern business - from the front-office to the back-office. IT departments need to demonstrate this flexibility by being responsive to changing business requirements (a product of changing markets and opportunities). This flexibility needs to be matched by agile tooling - maximising the benefits afforded by automation.

MaxUML offers such an agile design platform - founded on the UML™ standard, MaxUML can be customised to an organisation's evolving development processes and methods. And unlike other CASE tool vendors SoftCASE Consulting's business mission is to deliver effective solutions to its' clients not just product.

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Consultancy and Training

Methods/Tools Consultancy/Training

Many of the methods supported by modern CASE tools can trace their origins to the OO ideas formulated in the mid-90s. The software industry has moved on considerably since then and the problems facing modern development are far more demanding. Component Based Development, enterprise architecture, out-sourcing, patterns & frameworks etc. provide new challenges to software system specifiers and developers that are not addressed effectively by conventional methods and tools.

SoftCASE Consulting's consultants can offer advice and assistance in devising effective methods, processes and tools tailored to your software development activities.

Evolutionary Delivery Project Management Consultancy/Training

The role of software is now centre-stage for many companies. Yet the processes needed to effectively manage development projects often fail to deliver on-time or on-budget. The Rational Unified Process (framework), while offering a prescriptive approach is also heavyweight. Agile Programming (aka. RAD aka. Extreme Programming) while being lightweight does not scale well to medium/large projects and requires a level of personal rigour not achievable by most developers.

Although not widely publicised the middle ground is held by Evolutionary Delivery - a technique championed by Tom Gilb and successfully employed around the world by companies including Hewlett Packard, IBM, Apple, US DoD, Texas Instruments to name but a few. Evolutionary Delivery is a comprehensive project management approach aimed at delivering best-value to the business at the earliest opportunity and allowing the business to effectively direct the goals and costs of software development.

SoftCASE Consulting offers training and mentoring on Evolutionary Delivery to audiences comprising business and software project managers.

Software Architecture Consultancy/Training

When most people think about architecture they think of the explosive grow in implementation technologies e.g. XML, J2EE, Web Services etc. While technical architecture is clearly an important aspect of architecture it is only one aspect. Formulating an effective enterprise architecture capable of servicing the long-term strategic goals of a business provides much higher benefit.

SoftCASE Consulting's consultants bring to bear a wealth of experience in dealing with software architecture spanning enterprise architecture, system architecture and technical architecture.

For additional information on UML™, Consultancy and Training please visit the following links: OMG™, Gilb, UML™, MDA.