A Texas Limited Liability Partnership offering Information Technology consulting services in the greater Houston area. By providing project leadership expertise and guidance softwareDecisions helps you consistently deliver high quality, high value technology solutions within a predictable budget and schedule. softwareDecisions is dedicated to doing the right software right.

Our Beliefs

softwareDecisions believes that successful software efforts are a result of a series decisions at key checkpoints that keep the project aligned with ever-changing business objectives. Software engineering is far more dynamic than the more traditional engineering efforts it is often compared to. softwareDecisions employs integrative and incremental techniques that continuously adjust development requirements and priorities to ensure focus is always given to those needs of highest business value.

We encapsulate industry best practices to provide solid technology solutions. softwareDecisions believes that successful software development and integration efforts are not about technology; they are about business and bringing people together.

Robbie Mac Iver, PMP   Owner and Principal Consultant

Robbie Mac Iver is a PMP certified IT project manager and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) adept at bringing business and technology teams together to create and implement innovative solutions to complex business opportunities. He offers more than 20 years diversified experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle. His industry experience includes manufacturing, energy, supply chain, inventory management, medical claims, accounting and payroll. Robbie motivates and focuses teams to achieve both technical and business objectives that result in high value business solutions.

His specialties include:

Using his personal expertise and knowledge, Robbie leads by example, communicating directly, and taking direct action to solve practical problems that produce tangible, visible results. He is at once innovative, intuitive, and imaginative in applying technology to business priorities.

Highlights:

In support of a multi-million dollar supply chain centralization initiative:

• Defined Agile project management process to bring suppliers into the national supply chain network by more effectively adapting to the varying levels of complexity and uncertainty presented by individual suppliers. Conducted workshops to implement the new project management process resulting in a clearer understanding of business processes and goals, increased team accountability, and improved focus on business value objectives.
• Conducted business process workshops to identify process improvement opportunities, clarify organizational accountabilities, and define automation requirements to improve supplier adoption for the regional distribution centers. Led cross functional team employing iterative and incremental techniques to build a central data repository and web-based productivity tools to support the improved business processes.

For a provider of information security services and products:

• Improved customer satisfaction by overseeing relationship with principal supplier and establishing a formalized working relationship with the vendor’s technical team. Coordinated technical requirements, established clear and consistent communications processes, and managed internal and external expectations of the vendor/supplier relationship.
• Led a transition program to set up new software engineering team. Consulted on organization strategy, team organization, and the development of best practices for commercial concerns and managing team priorities. Mentored team leads on software development processes, and building positive customer relationships.

For a provider of identity management software products:

• Increased product quality and customer satisfaction for a client software product allowing deployment of 400K seats in Fortune 100 global enterprises resulting in sales of $4.2M.
• Led use case analysis and design effort to enable senior management to make an informed decision to halt a $2M development effort to re-design and re-architect a flagship software product.
• Managed team of 5 professionals within a budget of $750K to evaluate and select the Security Information Management (SIM) technology partner to maximize network security for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and to support the organization’s Managed Security Services solution offering.
• Improved the usability of a key application by managing a team of 3 professionals within budget of $300K to re-develop and deploy the web-based application.

Robbie holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and is a Certified Scrum Master. He is a member of the following professional organizations: