Bottom Line up Front – answers to questions outlined in OSU welcome letter What type of business...

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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

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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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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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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”