Products & Services
Software Engineering
Pitcairn believes disiplined software engineering drives solid software products that are maintainable through a long product life cycle. Pitcairn Engineering supports your needs for new product development as well as sustaining older software platforms. Pitairn can provide
- Software planning and requirements analysis and development
- Software design analysis and refactoring
- Software development in C/C++, C#, VB.NET
- Software refactoring and performance improvements.
- Software development under various Operating Systems, for example Linux, Windows and development platforms, for example QT or GTK
- Implementation of essential software development tools and methods like revision control.
Professional Project Management
Pitcairn has a very strong background and expertise in project management. Pitcairn's principal has an outstnading track record executing projects on and on budget. Pitcairn's project management is based on thorough and detailed planning followed by close progress monitoring. In addition to monitoring major milestones, Pitcairn's project managers monitor completed work again elapsed time on an individual task level and can provide at any given time the overall progress and remaining duration. Tools used are
- Use of Project Dashboards
- Detailed Work Breakdown Structure to generate a detailed Schedule in MS Project or OpenProject
- Regular “Earned Work” Charts providing achieved progress over time
- Project “On-Time” metrics in form of milestone slip charts, pioneered by NASA project managers
- Project Risk Management with active mitigation activities to minimize risk to timeline, budget and content.