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We empower organizations to optimize software quality, achieve compliance, and improve development & process efficiency.
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Project Consulting for successful Digitalization
Our experts guide you through the digital transformation, from tendering to the successful project acceptance.
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Compliance Analysis and Risk Consulting Services
Ensure to meet regulatory and compliance requirements while managing risks effectively.
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Software Lifecycle Methodologies
Increase effectiveness and quality through optimal method application in system and software development.
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Software Quality & Security Check
Our experts assess product quality & security as well as testing procedures and help you to enhance QA approach and testing strategy.
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Individual Workshops and Coaching
In workshops and as coaches, we support your teams in adopting, applying, and embedding methodologies in daily work.
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Gap and Process Analysis for Improvement
Unlock the potential inyour processes! Identifiy optimization opportunities for lasting improvement.
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Gap and Process Analysis
Software Quality Lab conducts experience-based analysis of existing processes, identifying inefficiencies, misalignments, and potential risks. The outcome are suggestions for optimization measures and a roadmap for appropriate implementation of the measures, integrating best practices to optimize both quality and productivity.
Key Services
Current State Analysis: Gathering information on current processes and method application through documentation reviews, interviews, and observations.
Gap Identification: Identifying discrepancies between current practices and recognized best practices (e.g. ISTQB, IREB, ISAQB, TMMi, SPICE) or standards to be applied (e.g. ISO 27001, ISO 25010, ISO 31000, ...).
Improvement Roadmap: Developing prioritized action plans, complete with timelines, responsibilities, and success metrics.
Consulting Expertise
Senior Consultant Markus Zöchling: Extensive experience in diagnosing process challenges and designing actionable strategies and solutions for closing the gaps in software and secure development lifecycle.
Company-wide Expertise: Leveraging recognized methodologies, industry best practices, as well as familiarity with international standards, to facilitate process and methodology enhancements.
Project Consulting for successful Digitalization
We support organizations in planning, coordinating, and sucessfully carry out large-scale software projects. Our experts guide you through the whole process from tendering to the final acceptance. This involves aligning project approaches (Agile, Waterfall, V-Model, Hybrid) and pragmatic methods of specification and quality assurance with business objectives, promoting efficient collaboration, and ensuring that project goals are met, on time, obn quality and within budget.
Key Services
Software Tendering: Creating quality-oriented contracts, conducting business process analysis, requirements specification and supplier audits for a good basis of the project.
Project Management & Coordination: Establishing roles, timelines, and deliverables to maintain transparency and momentum.
Optimization of Project Implementation: Streamlining workflows to reduce bottlenecks and risks, improve efficiency, and accelerate delivery as well as ensuring quality of deliveries.
Methodology Alignment: Recommending and adapting implementation frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, V-Model, etc.) and state of the art methodologies to the specific needs of each project or domain.
Consulting Expertise
CEO & Principal Consultant Johannes Bergsmann: Specialized in setting up large-scale quality oriented software projects and methodology consulting, with a track record of guiding toward more efficient and results-oriented projects.
Company-wide Expertise: Software Quality Lab’s consultants combine managerial skills, technical depth, and industry-specific know-how to deliver end-to-end project and process improvements.
Compliance Analysis and Risk Consulting Services
We support organizations in meeting various standards and regulatory requirements in software projects and processes. This involves checking the necessity and the degree of fulfillment with business objectives for different industries, and help in fulfilling and implementing regulatory requirements.
Key Services
Compliance Check: Verifying adherence to relevant legal and industry regulations and standards (NIS2, CRA, GDPR, ISO 27001, ISO 81001, ISO 62433, OWASP, SAFECode, SSDF, Cobit, GAMP, SPICE, ISO 62304, ISO 29148, ISO 29119, ISO 19014, etc.).
Risk Analysis & Mitigation: Employing frameworks like ISO 31000, ISO 49000, ISO 80000 to uncover risk factors and design effective risk management processes and control measures.
Regulatory Alignment: Integrating compliance requirements into the development lifecycle, from requirements capture through architecture, deployment, delivery and maintenance as well as traceabilty, security, quality and documentation requirements.
Consulting Expertise
Software Lifecycle Methodologies
Consultants at Software Quality Lab help clients select, implement, and refine the most suitable methodology for their software lifecycle—whetherAgile, DevOps, Waterfall, or a hybrid approach—considering both technical and regulatory factors.
Key Services
Methodology Selection: Analyzing organization and project scope, compliance demands, and team structure to determine the ideal approach.
Lifecycle Implementation: Designing processes, roles, methodologies, and toolchains for each phase (requirements, architecture, coding, testing, deployment, project and product management).
Continuous Improvement: Integrating feedback loops and retrospectives to adapt and optimize lifecycle practices over time.
Consulting Expertise
Software Quality Assessment
We evaluate both product and process quality, ensuring compliance with organizational requirements and industry regulations. Typical focus areas include test coverage, documentation standards, code quality, performance metrics, and security considerations.
Key Services
Quality Assurance Improvement: Conducting thorough reviews of QA practices, coding standards, and overall QA documentation, and supporting in appropriate improvement measures.
Risk-Based Assessments: Identifying and prioritizing critical issues, such as quality and security gaps or performance bottlenecks, for immediate attention.
Maturity Audits: Measuring process maturity using frameworks like TMMi, and recommending improvements accordingly.
Consulting Expertise
Individual Workshops and Coaching
We offer customized workshops and hands-on coaching designed to improve team competencies in areas such as requirements engineering, software architecture, testing, testautomation, and agile practices. These sessions can be delivered on-site, remotely, or in hybrid formats to suit organizational needs.
Key Services
Tailored Workshops: Covering Agile/Scrum fundamentals, Quality Principles, Testing and Testautomation Strategies, Requirements Engineering, and more.
On-the-Job coaching: Providing in-project mentoring for real-time problem-solving and immediate skill application.
Train-the-Trainer Programs: Enabling internal staff to become in-house experts and champion ongoing improvements.
Consulting Expertise
We empower organizations to optimize software quality, achieve compliance, and improve development and operation efficiency.
Under the leadership of Founder and CEO Johannes Bergsmann, the company’s holistic approach covers the entire software development lifecycle, from defining effective processes and methodologies to delivering hands-on coaching and advanced requirements and testing solutions.
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