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cPrime Ranks among the Top 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies on Inc. 500.

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

cPrime, a project management consulting, staffing and training firm continues to gain market share at an impressive rate, reporting a 693% growth over the last three years. cPrime provides specialized IT project management solutions for individual and enterprise companies across the Fortune 500. This accomplishment marks the second year in a row that cPrime has earned this honor.

Foster City, CA. August 25rd 2010 – cPrime, a project management consulting, staffing and training firm was recognized today on Inc. 500’s list of fastest growing private companies in the United States for 2010. This year, cPrime ranked #433 across the Inc 5000 annual ranking list, ranking 35th for the IT project management industry as a whole. Last year, cPrime was also recognized by Inc. 500, recording a growth of 1,054% over ther prior 3 year period. They continue to push through the constraints of a challenging economy and deliver portfolio, program and project management governance solutions, CIO Services, methodology implementations and thought leadership success across the IT Project Management space. cPrime shares this prestigious award with such notable alumni as Intuit, Zappos, Microsoft, Visa, Oracle and other many other inspirational companies.

For 2010, cPrime has a growth rate of 693% over the last 3 years, growing from three full-time employees in 2003 to forty eight employees in 2009, with total revenue exceeding $4.7 million. The growth is due to the rapid expansion of their project management practice supported by their prestigious training curriculum consisting of project management classes in Agile, PMP®, PgMP®, ITIL and CBAP®. They continue to serve as the single resource for all consulting, staffing and training engagements. cPrime services numerous fortune 500 companies across a wide variety of industries from retail and ecommerce to technology and government.

The recent growth has facilitated the opening of a Los Angeles Office and a national presence giving them the ability to bring their solutions to a substantially greater audience.

CEO, Zubin Irani explains, “To win this prestigious award is one that only a select few companies ever win, and for us to accomplish this great feat for the second year in a row speaks to the incredible commitment, passion and talent of everyone at cPrime”. He continues, “I’m proud of what we have accomplished as a team, and even more excited about all the great things I know we will accomplish together in the future”.

cPrime continues to specialize in IT project and program management services, giving them an edge over traditional companies who spread across numerous fields with a volume based solutions approach. They have recently become a major contributor of Scrum and Agile Development, assisting companies looking to make the transition into Agile and Scrum from traditional project management methodologies. The interest in Scrum and Agile methodologies is widespread among companies looking to adapt to today’s real-time demands. cPrime has established a national presence in the Agile space, and hopes to continue their run as the benchmark for success across the Agile project management lifecycle.

cPrime’s Project Management Training Center has quickly made its way to becoming the Premier Training Center for IT Professionals and the leader in Agile and Scrum training with more students certified in Scrum than any other company in California. They provide popular project management certification training courses for public and private sector to include the Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Preparation (PMP) course and the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course. cPrime is one of the few training providers in the country that is a Registered Education Provider for both the Scrum Alliance and Project Management Institute. Professionals looking to certify their project management experience and knowledge take these courses to stay at the forefront of project management and stand out by delivering excellence in project management.

cPrime’s consulting engagements consist of portfolio, program and project management solutions for fortune 500 companies. Their consultants have an average of 15 years of industry experience and have successfully delivered complex projects from Fortune 500 Companies to start-ups and small businesses. By leveraging their consultants, a well stocked bench of readily available candidates and hand picked partners, cPrime consulting is able to provide turn-key CIO Services. From one consultant to an entire development team, cPrime’s personnel solutions are geared for total project success.

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cPrime becomes a Leading Provider of Agile implementations and Agile training courses.

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

cPrime’s Enterprise Agile Consulting Services and Agile Training Courses develop as interest for Agile methodology, transitioning and resources grows.

Foster City, CA July 20th 2010 – cPrime Inc., a Project Management Services Company on the cutting edge of Agile implementations, today announced the launch of a new Agile Development Training Course. cPrime has noticeably become one of the leading providers of agile implementations with the growth of their Enterprise Agile Consulting Services. cPrime makes customized Agile training and coaching available to enterprise companies onsite and on-demand. The new Managing Requirements in Scrum Course will supplement cPrime’s Enterprise Agile Development Course and will serve as the latest comprehensive addition to their full curriculum of Agile and Scrum Development Courses.

Enterprise companies have a growing interest in Agile and Scrum methodologies, which has made cPrime an enormous resource for Agile implementations. cPrime’s Enterprise Agile Consulting services help guide and implement company teams in their transition from legacy SDLC to Agile. Today, with cPrime’s launch of their customized enterprise agile training courses, large company teams get access to expert coaching and mentoring as they journey through their agile implementation, but individual Product Managers, Product Owners, and ScrumMasters can also access the resources they need to implement Agile across many industries.

cPrime provides full life-cycle Agile implementations which are customized for each unique project needs. They have recently begun transitioning gaming companies to Kanban, another framework from the Agile methodology and especially helpful in game development.

cPrime’s Enterprise Agile Development Course provides an extended knowledge of Scrum to a level where project managers can create, manage, and execute a Scrum process for software development. Professionals will have the chance to work through a hands-on simulation of a complete Scrum project, from start to finish, and be ready to launch a Scrum project at their own company. cPrime then offers a more advanced Agile Course, Managing Requirements in Scrum, which is tailored for Project managers, Product Owners, and ScrumMasters already working with Agile projects. The course is a mixture of lecture and hands-on practice which demonstrates how to understand, generate, and plan the requirements on a Scrum project.

The desire for fewer failures and speedier success is driving the rapid adoption of the Scrum process framework, and the increasing need for trained people who can make agile projects successful. Scrum is designed from the start to improve responsiveness to customer needs, reduce waste, and reduce time to market.

The attention is undeniable and cPrime has taken full advantage of the interest by introducing a full curriculum of Agile Development Training Courses and becoming a key contributor of Agile development resources for companies and individuals. cPrime recently released footage of their Sr. Enterprise Agile Consultant, Dr. Kevin Thompson, who compares and contrasts Agile and Waterfall methodologies to a group of Project Managers. The video has had tremendous attention since its release and cPrime only plans to release more informational videos, tutorials and free classes as the interest for Agile Development grows.

The video, Agile, Waterfall & Uncertainty in Project Management, addresses the claim that an agile development processes, such as scrum, are more likely to be successful than traditional waterfall projects. Dr. Kevin Thompson verifies the assertion by performing a simple mathematical analysis of waterfall and agile projects. He models agile and waterfall projects that have identical requirements and shows how they fare when subjected to the same set of unanticipated problems. The results show that the agile project provides clear benefits for Return-on-Investment and risk reduction compared to the plan-driven, waterfall, project.

cPrime has taken advantage of the Agile methodology enthusiasm and plans continue to develop more Agile courses and valuable resources for Project Managers and companies excited about the methodology.

About cPrime:
cPrime is a project management consulting, staffing and training services company on the front lines of technology and methodology. cPrime is on the cutting edge of Agile implementations. Their Agile Project Management engagements help clients adopt Scrum and other Agile practices within the larger program management ecosystem. To learn more about Agile and Scrum please visit cPrime’s Scrum and Agile fact page.

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cPrime Inc., a leader in Project Management Staffing expands to Los Angeles.

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

cPrime Inc., a project management Consulting, Staffing and Training Services company, announces the launch of a new office in Los Angeles.

Foster City, CA May 25th 2010 – cPrime Inc., a Project Management and Agile Consulting, Staffing and Training Services company, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, announced the opening of a new Los Angeles office on June 1st, 2010. New opportunities in the IT space have paved the way for cPrime to transplant their success to a new lucrative Southern California market. cPrime’s rigorous recruiting process gives them the competitive advantage to build and stock a bench of quality IT professionals. cPrime will continue to provide individual and team-based resources for projects at every stage in the life cycle.

The L.A. office will be headed by Kimberly Yang, Vice President of cPrime. Yang has 10 years experience in the IT field and has been acknowledged for her outstanding performance at top IT staffing companies such as TEKsystems, Robert Half International and Kforce. As Managing Director at Kforce, she played a pivotal role of growing and developing new IT staffing offices and leading her staffing teams to pinnacle accounts such as DirecTV, Wilshire Media Group, Farmers Insurance, CBS Radio and NBC Universal. Yang will spearhead the strategic relationship development efforts across the IT space.

Yang is excited to be a part of cPrime, explaining, “A general rule of thumb for me is to constantly surround myself with people smarter, more capable and more driven – the only formula to make oneself better.  I have done just that by joining cPrime.  A firm consisting of visionaries filled with passion, intelligence and intensity is a firm that I wanted to be a part of.”

cPrime Inc. was formed in 2003 by a small group of IT project managers in the Bay Area. All were driven by a shared passion for project management and what they felt was a lack of understanding in the IT field about what makes a great project manager.

cPrime Inc., has proved itself as a leader in Project Management Consulting and Staffing by working with Fortune 1000 companies such as eBay Inc., Electronic Arts Inc., NetApp Inc., Williams-Sonoma Inc., DirecTV, Toyota Motor Corp. According to Inc 500, cPrime is ranked as one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in America, ranking 4th for fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley and 6th for the S.F. Bay Area in 2009.

As they continue to transplant their success from the S.F. Bay Area, they will strive to build another full service Consulting, Staffing and Training Practice in the greater Los Angeles Area. The cPrime expansion will focus on deploying the right cultural fit with the right blend of social and technical expertise that is required in today’s market. cPrime enables organizations to align their strategic goals and strategies to bottom line results.

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Integration Waterfall and Agile Development.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

by Shayan Alam, PMP

Waterfall and Agile/Scrum development methodologies are widely used by all organizations and are individually considered a proven approach for development. However, challenges arise as these two methodologies merge and clash. Here are a few key tips to help integrate both methodologies into your development organization. Let’s first discuss each methodology and its unique characteristics and assumptions.

The waterfall software development life cycle methodology believes in getting everyone together and involved early in the design process. The design process is longer and iterative as the team steps through the high level requirements, conceptual approach, solutions design, preliminary design and critical design. This assumes little will be left for discovery through the development and testing phases. Generally, waterfall has worked effectively for certain types of products – large, enterprise-wide development efforts where the user is being led through a standardized process.

However, Agile/Scrum is meant for a more volatile world and provides an iterative approach. For example, in the mobile applications space, the landscape is constantly shifting as new phones, new operating systems, and new technology to deliver data compete to get the user to interact in as many ways as possible. Short iterative development allows for an “open” mind for discovery since less time is invested upfront. In this case, discovery involves anything from functional flaws to ineffective user flows to the concept being deemed a bad idea altogether.

The fundamental difference between the two is Agile/Scrum assumes there will be flaws and therefore jumps into the coding to expose these. Therefore the success of the development team is driven on its ability to adapt and react quickly. Waterfall, instead, takes early precautions to mitigate any flaws.

This obviously causes a clash between development teams practicing each of the development methodologies. But certain steps can be taken to show the development team the advantages of the other’s methodology and ideally bring a team together.

5 Tips to integrating agile development groups with waterfall development group

Trying to introduce agile as iterative waterfall will not work

Some organizations think they can be more “agile” by doing waterfall in smaller iterations. The problem is the timeline is tough to compress when fully vetted artifacts are expected after each round of reviews. There is too much overhead with all of the document creation which detracts from the amount of time left for coding. Agile is about streamlining processes not compressing them.

Development / QA can be iterative while being bookended by design and integration

One transition strategy is to employ agile in the development and QA cycles. Smaller scoped development cycles followed by QA. This way the customer sees the evolution of the application and can comment along the way. The design is properly vetted at the beginning and ample time is allotted for integration at the end.

Watch out for scope creep

A project manager’s challenge in working in a fast-paced “can-do” development team is managing scope creep. Since changes can be implemented quickly, anything and everything seems possible. So the distinction must be made and managed between what is considered a fix versus what is considered a change so that sprints are tight and marching towards the agreed-upon end product.

Play nice with QA

QA is always burdened as a release approaches, their schedule’s usually backed up against a wall. In waterfall, QA expects tight use cases to derive their test cases. So in the agile world, they get code thrown over the wall. That is why in agile teams, sometimes developers rotate into the QA role and become part of the solution from the beginning.

Be mindful of the end user

Since at the end of each sprint a fully functional application is delivered, it is very tempting to release it. This can be very annoying to users if this requires a frequent patch or upgrade. It makes the user wonder whether a polished product is ever in the horizon. If the upgrades are seamless, it may be a hassle to keep up with the new changes. Therefore a published release schedule or roadmap keeps the user in the loop. Major releases semi-annually and/or functional releases quarterly are recommended.

If you would like more information on this topic feel free to comments or email us at learn@cprime.com We welcome your questions, comments and feedback.

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July 22, 2009 Update

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Expanded Project Management Certification Training

Business savvy project managers and professionals alike are realizing that project success depends on more than simply completing tasks. Project managers are seeking specific knowledge and education to help ensure project success and stand out in today’s competitive market.

Our clients are requesting project managers with new credentials in the field of project management to help ensure successful delivery of their projects. According to a recent study, 32% of projects are canceled before implementation and 53% of projects are ending with costs far beyond original projections. The facts clearly show that many project management professionals need additional training and education to successfully implement projects.

To address this need, cPrime Training Center has expanded its course offerings to include certifications for Project Management and IT professionals.

  • PMP®
  • PgMPSM
  • Agile
  • Certified ScrumMaster
  • ITIL® v3
  • and other Project and Program Management courses


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