Gadrian: Enabling Best Methods

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Professional Services and Best Methods
Gadrian Enabling Best Methods Quality
professional services depends on the ability to
deliver best practice and methods. Traditionally
defining and articulating a best practice or
method depended on publishing them in a manual or
building a computer application that embodies the
method. Often the former is not used and the
latter is very difficult. Gadrian addresses this
issue by providing features that make embedding
and distributing a best practice or method very
simple.

• Standardize best methods for your business and
  become more competitive
• Gain consistent and repeatable results
• Improve on time performance.
• Increase effectiveness of cost management.
• More informed change
• Increased learning for the enterprise

• Some key issues in getting the best methods to
  the place they do the most good
• Analysis is costly and time consuming so only
  specific people are chartered to do it.
• Distributing a methodology is inconsistent and
  expensive
• Providing simple analysis tools for everyone to
  use has not been available until Gadrian
• Results are often unpredictable with a single
  focus, limited sharing, little performance
  measuring after the fact
• Tools have been implementation oriented not
  analysis oriented

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• Embedding a best practice in Gadrian is easy
• Here is a simple example of embedding the
  development of policies in a business.
• Flow the major steps
• Identify the key artifacts
• Position via knowledge links
• Add tracking and management attributes
• Expand the best practice in detail
• Tune it to fit
• Gather performance data via Gadrian
• Continue the best practice development

• There are a lot of opportunities to standardize
  methods in a business, for example
• Distribute a methodology to many people in a
  business and gain repeatable results.
• Start a virtual team from the same point and
  track their progress.
• Customize an approach like application
  integration to fit your needs then distribute
  that approach as a Gadrian project.
• Manage and track consolidation and improvement
  efforts for best policies, procedures, processes
  and other work practices.
• Organize and document knowledge transfer and
  collaborative work efforts.
• Share knowledge down to the desktop

This diagram shows a basic policy generation
process that an enterprise can use and distribute
to all those involved in the policy development
and use in their work.
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