“Gary's vast practical experience and industry knowledge of software development is a real asset to his teaching of Lean Six Sigma process improvement. His adaptation of the six sigma materials to a small companies setting, allowed us to economically bring six sigma to our company and we are starting to see the results.” April 2, 2008 Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Good Value hired Gary as a Business Consultant in 2007
-- Chad Haggerty

“Since we hired Gary as our turnaround expert we have made huge strides in bringing our project back from the brink of collapse! His guidance, experience and honesty set the stage for a successful project re-launch. He has taught the project team so much, was able to get the right people in the right roles and remove layers that were over-complicating the project. He's been easy to work with and extremely supportive. It's not an easy task to get the Business and IT teams to work cohesively, but Gary has done just that! He has become an invaluable resource and I highly recommend him.” March 18, 2008 Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative hired Gary as a IT Consultant in 2007
-- Teddi Schwilling"

“Gary Gack has a great knack for making process improvement simpler and more practical after distilling the most important parts of the leading process improvement frameworks. This knack helps his clients gain better business results without getting lost in the jungle of competing and overlapping standards like PMBOK, ISO 9000, CMMI, ITIL, Lean Six Sigma and others. Gary has the cutting edge skills and experience to pragmatically apply process improvement methods in a well tailored manner to Information Technology. I believe any of his client will benefit greatly by engaging with Gary.” March 14, 2008 Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, Creative hired Gary as a Business Consultant in 2007, and hired Gary more than once
-- Alan Mcleod

“Gary is the most knowledgeable and skilled professional I ever met or worked with in the SDLC space. His expertise, methods and personal style helped move our team from merely hard workers to productive professionals. The results speak for themselves. In less than two years production defects were cut in half, rework was reduced by 60% and schedule and effort productivity improved by almost 15%.” June 10, 2008Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Experthired Gary as a IT Consultant in 1994, and hired Gary more than once
-- John Davis


 


Gary Gack

Areas of Expertise:

Business Coaching
Crisis Management
Leadership/Management
 





Is an MBA from the Wharton School, a Six Sigma Black Belt, and an ASQ-certified software quality engineer. He provides consulting, training and coaching related to business and software/IT process improvement, with emphasis on “best of breed” integration of proven best practices and models.

His primary focus and interest is in helping organizations improve business performance by more effective management of the interface between general managers and software and IT. By working on both sides of the "technology divide" he has helped reduce failures, increase productivity and quality, reduce waste, and control risk.

More and more businesses and government agencies are finding software and IT to be crucial to their success and efficiency. From ‘hardware’ products that are becoming software-enabled to enterprise and worldwide information and business platforms – systems of software, technology, and related services drive today’s organizations. This increased reliance is surfacing many shortcomings in the way software and IT are managed.

Software and IT projects, like Black Holes, consume vast amounts of time and money, yet often do not deliver what was promised, are frequently late and over budget, and are many are defect prone when deployed. Sometimes not even light comes out!
Outright failures are quite common and can have serious consequences for careers and for the bottom line. Outsourcing has produced decidedly mixed results. Organizations continue to take a trial and error approach with little systemic improvement noted. Dramatic improvements are possible, but require a combination of sustained best practices - silver bullets simply don't exist, as evidenced by the absence of dead wolves!

 

 


 


Is an MBA from the Wharton School, a Six Sigma Black Belt, and an ASQ-certified software quality engineer. He provides consulting, training and coaching related to business and software/IT process improvement, with emphasis on “best of breed” integration of proven best practices and models.

His primary focus and interest is in helping organizations improve business performance by more effective management of the interface between general managers and software and IT. By working on both sides of the "technology divide" he has helped reduce failures, increase productivity and quality, reduce waste, and control risk.

More and more businesses and government agencies are finding software and IT to be crucial to their success and efficiency. From ‘hardware’ products that are becoming software-enabled to enterprise and worldwide information and business platforms – systems of software, technology, and related services drive today’s organizations. This increased reliance is surfacing many shortcomings in the way software and IT are managed.

Software and IT projects, like Black Holes, consume vast amounts of time and money, yet often do not deliver what was promised, are frequently late and over budget, and are many are defect prone when deployed. Sometimes not even light comes out!
Outright failures are quite common and can have serious consequences for careers and for the bottom line. Outsourcing has produced decidedly mixed results. Organizations continue to take a trial and error approach with little systemic improvement noted. Dramatic improvements are possible, but require a combination of sustained best practices - silver bullets simply don't exist, as evidenced by the absence of dead wolves!

 

 


 

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