News and Events
Object Consulting, Visual Studio Industry Partner, announce plans to simultaneously ship Process Mentor with Visual Studio ALM tools.
Posted on 27th January, 2010
Object Consulting, Visual Studio Industry Partner, announce plans to simultaneously ship Process Mentor with Visual Studio ALM tools. Process Mentor provides a platform for Visual Studio ALM tool users to set-up their own processes and methods, which can be imported into Visual Studio and used as tailorable / configurable, hierarchical work-items.
This platform provides developers with an environment in which they can understand their performance, enabling:
- The ability to roll-up development processes to the project level for, development time, time-to-complete, and overall process performance
- Development managers are able to see at a glance how complete a work item is, due to the dynamic effort data provided
- Integration of Process Mentor - TeamGuide, Visual Studio ALM tools, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Project means we have the whole team on the same page, even though they may be using different views / products
- Insertion, within the development environment, of guidance for developers and the rest of the project team
- The ability to include your own governance, project management, and development methodologies into Visual Studio ALM tool process templates.
Brent Cahill
Product Manager
Process Mentor podcast on the Improving Systems and Software Engineering Conference
Posted on 18th July, 2009
In this inaugural podcast for Process Mentor, Brent Cahill – Product Manager Process Mentor - speaks with Angela Tuffley - conference chair for the Improving Systems and Software Engineering Conference (ISSEC). The discussion ranges from Angela’s considerable experience in the IT industry through to some of the highlights of the ISSEC conference. Process Mentor has been involved with the SEPG and resulting ISSEC conference since its inception and believes that this year (especially in harder financial times) is the best time to identify how efficiency can be gained in the development of systems and software. This interview identifies how you can gain that knowledge from the ISSEC conference.
Brent Cahill
Product Manager
Kevin Francis blogs about strategic architecture and Process Mentor
Posted on 29th April, 2009
It was a pleasure to read Kevin Francis' blog about his trip to San Francisco for Microsoft's Strategic Architecture Forum. Kevin is a Microsoft MVP for Architecture and one of his passions is the development of solution architects as individuals and as key capability within organisations. It was at this forum that Kevin presented to CIOs and CTOs on the development of architects. It was great to see that as part of this development Kevin sees a place for Process Mentor. For the full post visit http://msmvps.com/blogs/architecture/
Brent Cahill
Product Manager
Process Mentor assists Victorian Government develop strategic enterprise architecture framework
Posted on 26th April, 2009
Process Mentor grew from the development and project management approach of Object Consulting. To this day Process Mentor is assisting Object Consulting in the delivery of sensitive consulting engagements. To view the case study of how Object Consulting assisted Service Victoria using Process Mentor, please see the case study here:
http://www.objectconsulting.com.au/case-studies/service-victoria-roadmap.aspx
Brent Cahill
Product Manager
Summer User Group a success!
Posted on 9th March, 2009
On Thursday 26th February it was my pleasure to host the Summer User Group for Process Mentor. The summer user group was addressed by Steve Arahill and Karen Ong of Railcorp, presenting on their recent Process Mentor implementation. Railcorp have recently gone live with Process Mentor and are staging a gradual roll-out of Process Mentor to each of its divisions, IT and non-IT alike. This was an interesting presentation given Steve and Karen not only took us through the implementation approach with lessons learned and successes, but also a run down on the Railcorp Project Management Methodology (RPMM) within Process Mentor.
We look forward to seeing more of our users at the Autumn User Group.
Brent Cahill
Product Manager
Summer User Group Breakfast
Posted on 10th February, 2009
We are excited to start the new year with our first user group meeting of 2009! It will be held at the end of February with a summer breakfast and presentation.
The user group provides an opportunity for current Process Mentor users to come together and discuss their implementation and use of the Process Mentor product suite. It also provides users the ability to cross pollinate and learn from the successes and improvements of other organisations, which they can apply to their own environments.
The summer user group includes a presentation by Karen Ong, Senior ICT Project Officer, from Railcorp. Karen’s presentation shall detail their recent implementation of Process Mentor and their vision for its future use.
Brent Cahill
Product Manager
Process Mentor® and the University of Newcastle award students with Prize
Posted on 4th December, 2008 by Brent Cahill
In association with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - University of Newcastle, I presented the Object Consulting Prize to Carl Ormerod, Richard Ormerod, and Zack Golenia for their presentation “A Simulation System for Mobile Commerce – A Flight Booking System”.
It was my great pleasure to sit with an expert panel to determine the winning project from the final two submissions for the Object Consulting Prize – 2008.
It was exciting to see the application of the techniques that Object Consulting & Process Mentor® hold fundamental and the imagination and lateral thinking shown in the presentations were particularly encouraging.
Object Consulting have sponsored this accolade for the last 10 years, awarding the prize to the project team who delivers a software product that best meets the Object Oriented Software Engineering course requirements, through the application of Process Mentor, object oriented analysis & design and component based modelling.
“This is the life of a software developer – everything is always evolving and being improved on. We show them how to use Process Mentor® to guide their project development and the students can then extend their learning in dealing with industry-based themes, issues and problems of software development. This is a great experience for their future career.” – Professor Ye, University of Newcastle
This has always been and will continue to be an exciting opportunity for Object Consulting and Process Mentor® to support the next generation of software engineers and solution architects.
Brent Cahill
Product Manager
Process Mentor® Version 6.2 Released!
Posted on 28th November, 2008 by Brent Cahill
An exciting day for Process Mentor! Version 6.2 has now been released and comes packed with new features and functionality.
These include:
- Commenting functionality - providing full circle feedback capability to assist process improvements
- Addition of Advisor - a risk profiler that ensures the correct fit of governance to projects
- Customisable teams and roles
- Release of Raptor 2.0
- Versioning enhancements
- Confluence support in Accelerator.
Learn more about Process Mentor
Brent Cahill
Product Manager