Finance, Banking and Insurance

In the finance industry a change is currently taking place, away from traditional waterfall development processes towards more iterative processes, for example the Rational Unified Process (RUP).

Through training, consulting and coaching, HOOD helps its customers to understand and anchor new ways of working in order to apply and optimise them within practical project work.

Due the fact that off-the-shelf software and components are being purchased more and more (applications are no longer written “in house”) and parts of the development are outsourced, the role of requirements management within software engineering is becoming increasingly significant.

Gone are the days where a user could dictate his requirements to a programmer sitting at a terminal.

In order to avoid delays in deadlines, expensive misunderstandings or even developing the wrong system, it has become essential to convey the correct understanding of requirements to be fulfilled to all parties involved.

With our “Value-oriented Practices” HOOD offers a promising new approach to analysing and optimising how development departments work and presents good practices in a compact and understandable way to those involved.

A new application is measured according to the added value (value stream) that it brings to a company.