I. What is Technology Mentoring

KISL offers this fairly unique service and the objective of this is to equip your in-house development teams with new technology skills. Mentoring can also be the solution when you are targeting to significantly improve the level of maturity of your in-house team. KISL will design and implement a customized mentoring program.

II. Mentoring - An Overall Approach

The benefits are

• Assess the level of skills of the team by technology
• Identify problem areas based on historical project data
• Assess the level of SDLC and domain knowledge available with individual team member
• Create a shadow software project that represents the target competence from the team and get it approved by the client management
• Identify the key challenges and priorities with respect to mentoring
• Identify and Communicate to client management the possible results that could be achieved and the effort, time and resources required
• Based on management approval and feed back develop a detailed Mentoring project plan.
• Mentoring plan to include - general technology / process tutorial sessions - assessment mechanisms and support materials as well as processes
• Execute the plan, review periodically and keep the management appraised of progress

III. Benefits of Mentoring

• It builds on the strengths that are unique to your team
• Takes into account past data
• Is based on detailed investigation and assessment of skills
• Delivers clear and achievable technology and delivery maturity capabilities
• Creates Systems, processes and standards that can be used in real life project execution by your team
• Better long term self sufficiency in cross training teams and skills up gradation

IV. When should you look at the mentoring option

• You have a good in house team with potential to reach higher levels of competence
• You have a software development project in a new area of technology
• Some of your older applications are to be moved to new technologies
• You are loosing development staff to competition significantly