Simon Wright

Dr. Simon Wright has worked in the software development industry since the early 1980s. His experience has been gained in major blue-chip companies, and public sector bodies, on projects performed throughout the world. Simon has been actively involved in both the management and technical aspects of numerous projects.

Simon’s success is due primarily to his ability to gain the trust of clients and project staff through technical competence, coupled with excellent client facing, customer-focused communication skills. Simon provides training in requirements development and the need for ‘supply-side’ service providers to work with ‘customer-side’ staff to understand and agree what the customer perceives as ‘value’ and to appreciate their expectations.

In recent years Simon has concentrated on improving Requirements Engineering practices, and he has worked with many companies to implement a requirements- and value-driven culture that leads to measurable performance improvement. This focus on requirements naturally, and Simon’s skills & interest in modelling, naturally make him a consultant-of-choice when it comes to work involving estimating, risk management, and cost modelling.

From 2002 to 2007, Simon served as an Industry Advisor to IEEE Software journal.

Keywords
Requirements; communication; outsourcing partnership; value; culture; measurable performance improvement; modelling; estimating; risk management; cost modelling.