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| Our Story |
| Our Story is about a little company that could.
Leveraging managers with years of software management expertise together with very talented practical software
architects, the Azerity product demonstrated that software can be done right. Azerity
competed with the big gorillas (SAP, Siebel, Oracle) and won every time. And it didn't cost the clients millions to
install and millions more to upgrade. The product remains a big seller today - touted by users
as super intuitive and continuing to generate new sales revenue.
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| The Lessons |
What did we learn?
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How to build a practical architecture. One that delivers what clients want - intuitive, useful, useable.
And how to avoid the pitfalls which often occur when engineers aim for software elegance
but end up with an architecture that is overly complex, bulky, and slow.
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How to develop a software plan that includes all aspects including deployment and upgrades.
We think software companies should charge
for value-added services but not for avoidable deployment and upgrade costs.
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How to use the right processes and tools to make sure the software meets spec, is high quality (no bugs, that's right, none)
and completed on-time.
And the right software development tool to improve the process and software quality is Tracker.
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The Goal: Helping software companies compete against the
software gorillas and win by delivering reliable, scalable, maintainable software at less cost.
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| About Us |
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Jan McCleery, Duck Pond Software,
provides tools and consulting for software companies and
for the Model N High Tech product (Azerity's ProChannel) Jan has over 20 years' experience
as a Software Engineering executive. As Azerity Co-Founder / CTO,
she was instrumental in the design and development of the Azerity CRM/Revenue Management product as well as
designing the Tracker toolset for the Azerity team's use.
Prior to founding Azerity in 1998, she was Vice President of Engineering at
Digital Market (an on-line eMarket for electronic parts). As JMM Consulting she designed
bug tracking and call center software which became the basis of Tracker.
She previously held software management positions at ASK/MANMAN, Ingres
and Ford Aerospace/Loral.
Her husband Mike and she live in Discovery Bay, CA and have a daughter Julie and son-in-law Shane
(of www.ShaneAndPeter.com) in Scotts Valley, CA, and daughter Kristin living in Maui. |
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Anita Wotiz, Wotiz Consulting,
has worked in the software industry for over 20 years in both
technical and management roles.
She is currently a Software Engineering management consultant and teaches courses in Software Requirements
Engineering and Software Project Planning and Monitoring at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC)
Extension. Her past positions include Vice President of Engineering at Azerity and management positions at
Lucent and Ford Aerospace/Lockheed. Her past technical work includes development of real time, embedded systems.
Her total experience allows her to understand which core practices work and how to tailor best
practices to fit an organization's needs. Since 1996, she has served as president of the board of the Bill Wilson
Center in Santa Clara, California, which provides shelter and services for at-risk, troubled, and homeless youth. Anita
and her husband reside on the San Francisco Penninsula. |
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Jan and
Anita |
Jan and Anita
have been a team many times. Besides at Azerity where Jan was CTO
and Anita VP Engineering, they both worked for many years at Ford Aerospace / Loral in various software
organizations and both in technical and management roles. At Ford Aerospace, each were awarded the
San Jose Mercury TWIN (Tribute to Women in Industry)
Award and each served in the honorary position of Loral Software Engineering Steering Committee (SESC) Chairperson. |
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Join the Duck Pond team.
If you are an entrepreneur with proven experience in the software arena looking to
work with companies and make a difference, contact us.
We are always interested in exchanging ideas and growing an extended network of software professionals.
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