LogicaCMG have appointed veteran information technology executive John M. Dettori Jr. as director of its managed testing practice in North America. Mr. Dettori will be responsible for the rollout of LogicaCMG’s collaborative, integrated software testing and validation processes that have been used by more than 50 large firms in over 1,000 testing projects worldwide.
Mr. Dettori joined LogicaCMG from ABN AMRO Bank, where he created a centralized user- acceptance testing program. He has designed and delivered technical solutions and projects for financial services firms including Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, GE Capital, and Harris Bank and Trust during his career.
“In North America, testing has tended to be reactive and ad hoc, performed at the end of the software development life cycle,” says Dettori. “That approach often results in long lead times to market for new applications and infrastructure improvements. Changes and error fixes require companies to go back to the beginning and re-develop. Quality frequently takes a back seat with such methods. You can spend up to 70 percent of your application development budget on testing. The LogicaCMG method is different. It is a framework that integrates testing within the overall IT development process. Problems and bugs get discovered earlier. Our way brings tremendous cost savings, competitive advantage from getting to market quicker, and an information system that is tightly in sync and fully supportive of the client’s business objectives.”
“The North American market has a crying need to improve its methods of testing and validating changes to the processes, products, and systems that are critical to business operations,” says Karen A. Roche, president of LogicaCMG’s financial services business in North America. “The Department of Commerce has reported that software bugs cost the U.S. economy more than 60 billion dollars a year. Our own research shows that almost ninety percent of IT projects experience problems within 48 hours after launch. That can be very costly, and it is due in large part to incomplete or inaccurate testing. Organizations are taking a hard look at what they are investing in this area, and they are coming to realize that the best course of action is to tap the expertise of a globally capable firm like LogicaCMG. We are very pleased that John Dettori has joined our North America team to spearhead the rollout of our managed testing initiative.”