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About Gestalt IT/Business Consulting Firm Department of Defense (DOD) Energy & Utilities (E&U) 250 People 9 Offices across the U.S. 50% Year over Year Growth

IT/Business Consulting Firm

Department of Defense (DOD)

Energy & Utilities (E&U)

250 People

9 Offices across the U.S.

50% Year over Year Growth

DOD’s Tech Challenges Agile “Competition” DOD – Years to create useable tech “ Competition” – A trip to RadioShack Systems Don’t Talk to Each Other Data Silos Monolithic Proprietary

Agile “Competition”

DOD – Years to create useable tech

“ Competition” – A trip to RadioShack

Systems Don’t Talk to Each Other

Data Silos

Monolithic

Proprietary

Deliver functioning software early and often that: Enables The Right Information to get to The Right People at The Right Time Joplin Office’s Mission for Our DOD Customers

Joplin Office’s Tech Service Oriented Architecture Web 2.0 Open Source Enterprise Service Bus RSS, SIP, UDDI, XMPP

What Makes Gestalt Different?

Deliver – Early and Often Functioning, quality software every 30 days or less Responsive to customer’s REAL needs

Functioning, quality software every 30 days or less

Responsive to customer’s REAL needs

Copyright © 2005, Mountain Goat Software

Copyright © 2005, Mountain Goat Software

Self-Managed Teams The Good News? You’re your own boss The Bad News? See good news Cross-functional

The Good News?

You’re your own boss

The Bad News?

See good news

Cross-functional

Agile Software Engineering Practices Quality Control From The Start Test Driven Development Continuous Integration Configuration Management

Quality Control From The Start

Test Driven Development

Continuous Integration

Configuration Management

Open Source Use…A Lot Contribute Back…Quite A Bit Bleeding Edge for The DOD

Use…A Lot

Contribute Back…Quite A Bit

Bleeding Edge for The DOD

Open Culture Gestalt != Office Space, Dilbert Senior Leadership Open Door Policy As Much Visibility as Possible “ Social Networking” del.icio.us

Gestalt != Office Space, Dilbert

Senior Leadership Open Door Policy

As Much Visibility as Possible

“ Social Networking”

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