How the ZDLC can deliver benefits to IT projects

1. Cognizant
BusinessCloud
TM
ZDLC
ZERO DEVIATION LIFECYLE PLATFORM

2. Imagine …..
 We can delivery solutions that are
 Faster
 Cheaper
 That work first time
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3. The Zero Deviation Lifecycle Platform ….
 Does just that
 Faster time to market,
 through intelligent automation
 At lower costs,
 through collaboration and automation
 Working first time,
 through early defect detection and removal
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4. The Zero Deviation Lifecycle Platform ….
 What is it?
The Zero Deviation Life Cycle (ZDLC)
is a “smart” Application Lifecycle
Management Platform, that reduces the
Total Cost of Ownership of IT Systems
through mathematically rigorous next-
generation automation.
It complements rather than competes
with other ALM platforms.
Test Architecture
Against Requirements
Gather Create Generate Create Ensure
Requirements User Stories Use cases Architecture Code meets
Design
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5. The Zero Deviation Lifecycle Platform ….
 What does it look like?
HoQ-e RMS-e
TiA-e SDP-e
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6. The Zero Deviation Lifecycle Platform ….
 How do I use it?
Problems in requirements elicitation, alignment and prioritization.
Solution uses HoQ-e a tool as part of the ZDLC Platform that accelerates
elicitation and ensures correct prioritization.
Benefits include significant speed up of requirements elicitation, better
consistent prioritization and as a result fewer defects leak from
requirements.
Rapid to deploy, quick to learn and fast to show benefits.
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7. The Zero Deviation Lifecycle Platform ….
 How do I use it?
Problems in requirements elicitation alignment and prioritization. Down to
user case and user story creation.
Solution uses HoQ-e and RMS-e tools that are part of the ZDLC Platform
that accelerates elicitation and ensures correct prioritization and rapidly
enables user stories to be generated.
Benefits include significant speed up of requirements elicitation and reliable
user story creation to drive delivery.
Rapid to deploy, quick to learn and fast to show benefits.
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8. The Zero Deviation Lifecycle Platform ….
 How do I use it?
Problems burning platform, lack of access to knowledge of those platforms.
Need to bring control to those platforms.
Solution uses SDP-e and TiA-e to reverse engineer the platforms.
Benefits include rapid low impact on existing resources automated reverse
engineered description of how platforms work.
On going governance benefits through the use of artifacts generated.
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9. The Zero Deviation Lifecycle Platform ….
 How do I use it?
Problems defect costs too high or rising. High integration costs into Systems
Integration Testing.
Solution uses SDP-e and TiA-e to automatically perform root cause analysis
of defects across system.
Benefits reduces typical root cause analysis (33% of AppDev time) to less
than 5%. Results in greater efficiency of AppDev freeing up valuable
resources. Rapid SIT cycle time leading to faster time to market.
On going governance benefits through the use of artifacts generated.
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10. The Zero Deviation Lifecycle Platform ….
 How do I use it?
Problems old platform in need of refresh (i.e. Siebel to Lomardi).
Solution uses SDP-e and TiA-e to reverse engineer and then forward engineer
to target platform.
Benefits are a net reduction in cost of migration of the order of 20%-25%
through faster process migration. End solution has higher quality through early
testing.
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11. Contact Points:
Steve.ross-talbot@cognizant.com CEO
Tim.Dineen@cognizant.com COO
Bippin.Makoond@cognizant.com CTO
Don.Scott@cognizant.com North America
Shyam.Chivukula@cognizant.com UK/Europe
qualit-eenquiries@cognizant.com General
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