In addition to software development services, Créalie proposes to put its technical skills at your projects service. Here are some examples illustrating how these specific interventions of a senior consultant take shape.
Projet close support
One of your teams is "a little too young". Make it closely supported by experienced consultant who could be the link between the customer requirements, your requirements and the team members. This type of mission is characterized by the preliminary establishment of methodological recommendations, and by a precise project follow-up, including the participation to technical meetings and reviews.
Specifications, requirements
A large part of your projects success rely on the quality of specifications and requirements. Créalie proposes you to write or to help you to write these documents, using if needed one of the existing methodologies (SA/RT, OMT, UML, ROOM...). This contribution can include the preparation of a call for offer aimed at your providers : preparation of consultation documents, establishment of means for offers examination.
Software design

This aspect is too often neglected, because of a lack of real methodological references in the embedded software and real-time world. A specific reinforcement of your teams on this subject will contribute to largely improve your projects results : help during the design preliminary reflexions, consulting for the existing methods used, solution choice according to evaluation criteria.
Integration, validation, acceptance tests

For all these aspects, Créalie will help you to optimize and make reliable the projects course by :

defining and installing a rigorous process for unitary testing, which is the key for succesful integration,

implementing an integration strategy in order to have a better control on this critical phase, choosing and implementing tools in this field,

defining a validation plan to check in detail that the software meet you requirements in all circumstances, and defining acceptance tests.
Maintenance
Coming from the installation and the animation of a software maintenance third-party, Créalie has a very strong competence in this field and will help you to prepare your software setting in maintenance or its possible subcontracting.
Audit, software evaluation

Often associated to a negative image, this type of operation however produces significant results. Thanks to his experience and to his "not-implication" in your context, the "auditor" will very clearly analyze the situation of a software. Limited in time and effort, and materialized by a detailed report, the audit will bring you a reliable and consistent software evaluation.
Software quality

Far from the "quality for quality" attitude, the software quality operational vision recommended by Créalie will help you to set up a "model-quality" dedicated to your context. Among the possible services, let us quote : the quality plan definition on the existing model basis, the introduction of standards (ISO12207) and most recent methods (SPICE, CMM), the quality projects follow-up, the development plans definition.