Gordon Schneemann believes successful legacy modernization is based on a kernel of vendor-neutral practices. Success comes from sound business analysis and software engineering techniques, rather than proprietary, non-standard approaches that tie you to a specific vendor. You can rely on lightweight, agile techniques using available and proven development practices to achieve optimum results.
Gordon has deep experience in the software industry as developer, methodologist, product manager, program manager, and training manager. At IBM/Rational, Gordon developed the training curriculum and certification program for the Rational Unified Process (RUP), an iterative software development process framework. He was responsible for the IBM/Rational business analysis, object-oriented development and design training. As program manager he organized Service-oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) method updates, IBM’s SOA approach. Gordon was closely involved with IBM’s donation of the OpenUP agile development method and practices to the open-source community.
Working with diverse industries such as aerospace, manufacturing, engineering, banking, and telecommunications, Gordon finds the common language organizations need to work cohesively with consistent information and services. As a mentor, coach and hands-on practitioner he charts the optimum development lifecycle for agile software development.