Solutions | Services

Known for exceptional quality and delivery excellence, AJI Software can provide you with a wide range of services that can be customized based on your business objectives and requirements. Our broad architecture and implementation experience can assist you in an effective solution regardless of size or industry. We break our service offerings down into four categories: Mentoring, Consulting, Training and Community Development.

Team Mentoring

If you lived through the “Bubble Burst” of the early 2000’s then you probably recall the phrase “Do more with Less”. Shortly after that phrase became popular, IT leadership made more of an effort to better understand the business needs and to provide more business value. As the economy changes the phrase might become “Do more with Less, Faster… and make sure it meets the Business Needs”. This will be a challenge for most IT organizations but there are several things that IT leaders can do ensure success:

Embrace an Agile Development Methodology like Scrum and make sure their Team “lives it”.
Empower your Application Lifecycle Management with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 and Visual Studio ALM.
Use a Rapid Application Development Platform like SharePoint or Windows SharePoint Services so that the Business sees regular releases of new features and solutions.
Make sure that everyone on the Team is trained and capable of using these Methodologies and Tools.
Start with a Tough Problem and bring in an Expert Mentor to help your Team as they build the solution.

In this environment, you may not want to spend your budget on large consulting projects and classroom training for each member of your team. If you had an expert in agile methodology and SharePoint development to sit “Side-by-Side” with your team, mentor them on the process and tools while building a solution, you get the best of all worlds. Your team would be enabled to continue developing rapid, business driven solutions without blowing the budget.

At AJI Software, we provide high level expertise in Scrum, Software Craftsmanship, .NET development, SharePoint while we support your team in the development of rapid applications. Side-by-Side Mentoring can be the most cost effective method of attaining results, depending on your business goals.

For example: We’ve found that most organizations are not using the full capabilities of SharePoint because they may not have experience with the entire suite of features included. Included elements like Workflow, Enterprise Search, the Business Data Catalog and InfoPath Forms Services are sometime underused or overlooked. Mentoring can help our clients get the most out of technology they already own. We can provide subject matter expertise on specific Microsoft technologies rather than try to position an entire team of consultants. This way we can work closely with your own team and through mentoring, reduce project risk and ensure successful business satisfaction.

Consulting

Information Technology Consulting

Strategy and Analysis
Planning
Building
Enterprise architecture design, development and optimization
Package solution evaluation
Custom Solution development
Portal development (SharePoint)
Implementation services
Website design
Architecture
Methodology / Application Lifecycle Management

Intranets/Extranets:

Supply chain integration
Publishing / content management
Decision support
Data warehouse design, development and implementation
Data mining and modeling
Business intelligence portals

Enterprise Application Integration

Applications
Middleware
Databases
Object technology services
Legacy system integration

Training

AJI Software has some of the best trainers on the planet. They also consult and author books. We pride ourselves on investing in real-world experience to use in the classroom and also using our mentoring skills on the software delivery. We have searched intently to find the finest courseware partners to bring you the best curriculum. This combined with our experience will give you a value packed experience that is second-to-none. We currently offer training in the following areas:

Agile | Scrum | Team Foundation Server | Visual Studio ALM

As one of only 17 Microsoft Certified Professional Scrum Developer Trainers in the world, AJI Software’s John Alexander will team with Centriq Training to provide a unique and intensive 5-day training experience for any member of a software development team.

The Professional Scrum Developer course guides teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable increments of software using the Scrum framework, Visual Studio 2010 and modern software engineering practices. The course is an interactive, hands-on class where attendees work on self-organizing, self-managing teams using a common instance of Team Foundation Server 2010.

This course was created out of a need to assist development teams and individuals with Scrum best practices for the rest of the day after the standup!

PSD classes are available at Centriq Training through a partnership with AJI Software, PSD certified trainers who are assessed, trained, mentored, and monitored by Scrum.org and Microsoft. This course is not currently available anywhere else in the Midwest. To view upcoming class dates and to register, click here!

For more information on AJI Software's Certified PSD Trainers, click here. For even more detail on the Professional Scrum Developer Program,watch this Channel9 discussion between Sam Guckenheimer and Ken Schwaber about the course.

We also offer a 2 day custom seminar on Agile Development and Scrum. Contact us for more details!

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2010

With Microsoft SharePoint® Server 2010, you can empower your employees to work together and collaborate more effectively. Your employees can use an extensive array of tools to help them share information, organizational knowledge, and personal expertise. Your organization can manage information as well as organizational knowledge to help increase productivity, simplify compliance, and derive more value from information assets in a security-enhanced environment.

Our Microsoft SharePoint® Server 2010 training classes run from business user to administrator to developer. The curriculum is from Critical Path Training, a longtime leader in Microsoft SharePoint® Server 2010 Curriculum. AJI is proud to be a licensed Critical Path Training Partner! We can deliver any of these classes either onsite on client machines or offsite through a private training location. Contact us today!