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Bottom Line up Front – answers to questions outlined in OSU welcome letter What type of business is it? Off-shore Software Development for charity
How does it make money? Sells Agile results in software development
Who is the ideal customer? Medical software companies - mHealth
What is the basic business model? Selling very economic hourly labor plus just 60%
What is your value proposition? Labor rates 1/2 of US; 2/3 of other off-shore locations
What size business is it? One 8 person Scrum Team for first 2 years, then
adding a team per year with a stretch goal of 8 teams
in 5 years
Dedicating 10% of all profits to Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Kosovo and the Ukraine
AtLantage
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Business Concept
Agile
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Charity
Medical Software Development – off-shore, outsourced resources from Kosovo and/or the Ukraine while giving back 10% of profits to the countries of origin.
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Outsourced Agile software development
exploiting Cloud for Good
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Market Summary The cornerstone for success is the mutually beneficial
opportunity to capitalize on the untapped resource of coding and programming talent in Kosovo and the Ukraine at 2/3 the cost of other countries, and 1/2 the cost of the same talent in the US
Significant amount of off-shore talent is from India, off-shore rates are rising to meet the demand and off-shoring of programming talent will continue to rise
“Speed to value” - cloud computing and agile methodologies will make this startup more of a sure thing than was previously possible
“Agile will salvage IT and project management from requirements-based ruins”
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“Speed to Value” AGILE Other patterns & practices
Pros+ Cons-
incremental and Early delivery
non typical iterative contracts
code/project(s) that work
hard on the Product Owner
features in weeks
transparent w/daily burn
less rework - just in time
not a silver bullet
ok to fail
Pros+ Cons-
requirements based contracting
Delivery all at once
plenty of rigor & documents
Delivery all at once
able to hide Features in months/yrs
Rigid Designs less flexible
10-25% success
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Opportunities
Problem Statement: American companies in the medical and pharmaceutical industry need additional economically feasible coding, scripting and API talent than the American workforce is able to support – for years to come
Opportunity: untapped programming resources in Kosovo - associated with the University of Pristina - will be developed into highly competitive, more reasonably compensated, pool of collaborative talent than currently being provided by other companies
Portfolios for off-shore software development are doubling in companies like Truven or Bayer with probable execution in the second half of 2015
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Competition
InfoSys, WiPro, entities such as these are still using 80's tunneling for the 'appearance' of being secure
Our competitive advantage is very economically feasible talent compared to stateside (1/2 costs) and/or worldwide (2/3 costs) resources
Agile will salvage IT and project management from requirements based ruins - - only 10-35% success over the last thirty years
Exploiting the world wide “secure” cloud
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Goals and Objectives
Five-year goals: Establish a well respected off-shore coding and scripting resource pool while committing all net profits to charity after investor ROI
Specific, measurable objectives for achieving our five-year goals. Revenue to profitability objectives are set at 60%, giving the
‘doers’ opportunity for more take-home
Market-share objectives are to compete with the eastern countries and grow to 8 (6-8) person Scrum Teams in the first five years
Return on initial investment in the first three years
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, LLC Randy Schmidt, Lt Col, USAF (ret) PMI-ACP, CSP, CSM, MCP, SEC+ Strategic
Results Architect, Agile Certified Practitioner, Coach and Mentor, Cloud Expert and author
• Scrum Agile since 2004
• DHS/ICE Scrum master – coaching and team start-up
• Capital One – Sr Scrum Master, on-boarded 9 teams, servant leader for 3 off-shore and 1 on-shore development teams
Paul Connolly, Masters in Computer Science
Fatos Halilaj, Professor, programmer and visionary creator of the “Competency based teaching system – Intuitive Guidance™” - University of Pristina
Betim Drenica, MCT, Software Architect
The Team
Randall R Schmidt
CEO
Paul Connolly VP Operations
Fatos HalilajCIO
Betim DrenicaCTO
Joe KearyVP Medical Sales
[Full Name] Manager
[Full Name] Manager
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Resource Requirements
Requirements for the following resources: [loaded $1.144M]
Personnel, eight (8) per team $715K 1 Scrum Master – (On Site) $125K [$200K]
1 Business Analyst/off-shore liaison (On Site) $150K [$240K]
2 junior programmers/testers (Off-shore) $60K ea [$192K]
2 mid career programmers – dev,db,UX (Off-shore) $70K ea [$224K]
2 senior ‘Leads’ – Lead Dev, Lead Test (Off-shore) - $90K ea [$288K]
Technology – Cloud, distributive collaboration, AGILE/Scrum/Retro
Loaded [60%] ~20% benefits, ~30% overhead including debt, 10% profit to charity
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Risk for this effort can be managed by not extending the credit line beyond one team before getting a signed contract
Expected Rewards: 10% of gross proceeds to charity – mainly in Kosovo to the
‘Little Sisters of the Poor’ – Mother Teresa’s
Provide employment for a talent pool that might otherwise remain undiscovered
Provide a livelihood for several on-site resources as well as off-shore
Start with clients in the US, consider the opportunity for other countries: UK, Australia, etc.
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Near term – get on contract (with just an idea) Robust ‘Risk’ declaration – next slide
Finish the business plan and start marketing and communications toward investment options
Long term H-1 visas are the ‘carrot’ for talent from Kosovo staying with us
through the transition
We have an Agile Scrum advantage right now that may not last very long
Funding: start-up will need $350K cash with line of credit for $1.5M
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Mission Statement – Business Value proposition
Establish and grow an un-tapped resource of programmers and testers - Kosovo & Ukraine
Mutually beneficial off-shore model of software (APIs) development and testing at 1/3 lower labor costs
Exploiting Agile/Scrum/Retro patterns and practices – proven onboarding experience of off-shore resources
Microsoft certified practitioners and solutions – “we run our company on the cloud – eating our own cookie dough”
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, 2014
Board of Advisors
Board of Directors
Patrick Morin – Positive Leadership Motivational Speaker
Jim Neu – Strategic Thought Leader
Alan McCullum – Analytical MBA W&M
Joe Keary – Medical / pharmaceutical expert
Dan Downing – Advantage Factory Azure
Vitaliy Klitnyy – BIT-SOFT Ukraine
Artan Ismaili – Microsoft Engineer – Kosovo
Chairman - Randy Schmidt, Strategic Results Architect
Aleksey Volkov – BIT-SOFT
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Technologies
Cloud, web services (WSDL) and rest services (WADL) will be critical during the wholesale conversion of enterprise business IT to mobile platforms
Companies that can aggressively deploy these (5th generation) ubiquitous middleware technologies will ‘fuel the mobile app revolution’ Tablets, smart phones and smart devices will no longer be locked down
to enterprise IT
Publically available big data is complimenting proprietary data warehouses, operational data stores, data-marts and boutiques
Modular APIs will be the norm in enabling ‘discovery’ of Business Layer Services and DataViz
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Business Value: 1) Agile/Scrum 2) Cloud 3) Charity
More than half the team has “been” Agile since 2004 – Northrop Grumman Spiderworks, Microsoft Technical Centers – systems of record enhanced by agile
On the cloud since 2008 – entire company is cloud
Microsoft Alumni – Microsoft certification – Microsoft Partner – Sharepoint Architect – MS SQL operational worldwide [DCTS] – GCCS Orchestration in 2006
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AtLantage Business Cloud LLC is at the apex of
1)Agile in ‘results driven’ software development
2)Un-tapped developer resource(s) & Microsoftcentric expertise on-demand
3)Need 6-month [$350K] upfront and 1.5M line ofcredit - ROI in three years
Exec Summary - Recap
AtLantage Advantage = ”Speed to Value”