Welcome to the “WSR Consulting Group, LLC
(WSRcg) Learning Center for IT Excellence”

On this webpage we present:

Introducing the WSRcg Learning Center for IT Excellence Introducing the “Five IT Success Models” Model I: The Riskipedia 2.0 Model Model II: The Requirements Model Model III: The RFP Model Model IV: The IT Contracting Model Model V: CPR: Reviving the Failing IT Project

Introducing the WSRcg Learning Center for IT Excellence

Hello IT Attorneys and Litigators, Computer Experts, Systems Professionals, IT Researchers, University Professors and PhD. Candidates:

WSR Consulting Group, LLC is proud to open the “WSRcg Learning Center for IT Excellence.”
We envision and position this webspace to be a place where:

1. the leading scholars, researchers and practitioners in IT today and in the future,
2. can introduce new ideas, models, processes and challenges
3. that will spark discussion, thought, disagreement and advancements
4. in the software/systems development, implementation, management, contracting and litigation arenas of Information technology.

Mr. Warren S. Reid, WSRcg’s founder, as promised, is happy to open this new portion of WSRcg’s website with his “Five IT Success Models.”

These powerful qualitative success models were triggered by numerous requests from industry and institutes of higher learning to memorialize his experience, training, expertise, and unusual perspectives on addressing the following difficult questions:

• Why do so many systems projects still fail?
• How do we elicit executive and user systems & functional requirements that lead to “success”?
• Why and how did our RFP process "doom" this project?
• How should we properly contract for IT products & services in a way that suitably allocates project and party risks?
• How do we turn around a drowning IT software implementation project?

Warren has tested out and presented these models on several projects and to several organizations; they have been made a part of the curriculum at a law school and in three PhD programs at the following institutions:

1. University of Southern California (USC), Graduate Schools of Software & Systems Engineering, PhD programs
2. USC, Graduate School of Industrial Engineering, Strategic Management of IT, PhD program
3. Southwest University School of Law, in their IT Contracting Classes.
4. SoCal Systems Process Improvement Network (SPIN, senior systems/IT engineers & managers in the aeronautics and space industries)
5. Los Angeles CIO Breakfast Meeting Groups

These groups have each reacted with enthusiasm, interaction, challenge, and sometimes, befuddlement and puzzlement. In the vast majority of teachings, Warren invariably received overwhelmingly positive feedback, deep insights, and ultimately, agreement on the essence of each of the models and their effectiveness individually and as a whole.

Each of the five “IT Success Models” has a fairly large component directed toward attorneys -- especially the 1st (Riskipedia), 3rd (IT Contracts), and 4th (CPR) models.

These models are constantly being updated and are works-in-progress that are subject to change. Answers to specific client situations/questions, and/or application of these models to a specific client situation should be done only after discussions of such specifics with an attorney or expert consultant trained in the use of the models.

Following the sage advise contained in these models, as good and as tested as the advice and recommendations are, if not preceded by tailoring the models to the facts and specific sets of circumstances of the parties, may be hazardous your job, your project, your team and/or your company.

With warm regards,


Warren S. Reid, Managing Director
WSR Consulting Group, LLC

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WSR Consulting Group, LLC specializes in the areas of: Computer Failure and Software Failure Litigation and Expert Witness Testimony . Computer Crisis & Software Project Turnaround and Information Technology Consulting . Technology & Software Intellectual Property Disputes & Misappropriation . Internet litigation. We provide computer expert witnesses, expert deposition and expert testimony. Our computer and software experts and consultants specialize in: computer system and software analysis . software project management & estimation . software project quality assurance . computer software selection . system and software requirements gathering & design . software development & coding . computer system and software testing & defect management . data base, data warehouse & file conversions . computer system and software implementation, go-live and maintenance activities . computer system and software failure analysis and root causes. These services are performed for Enterprise Resource Planning ( ERP ) systems, CRM systems, manufacturing and distribution systems and software, commercial applications, POS (Point Of Sale) systems, ticketing systems, government and military systems and software, MIS based systems and more. We have been designated and/or testified as computer failure experts, software failure experts, system failure experts, ERP failure experts, ERP system experts, software project failure experts, system development life cycle (SDLC) methodology experts, software implementation methodology experts, systems integration methodology experts, software project management experts, system valuation and software company valuation experts, and IP experts in U.S., Canadian, Asian, and European courts.

WSR Consulting Group, LLC consultants have been employed in following capacities/engagements: computer expert witness, computer software expert, computer system failure, computer software expert witness, software testing expert, software failure expert, software development expert witness, computer failure expert, software valuation expert witness, software project expert witness, software project failure litigation, project management expert witness, project management forensics expert witness, software expert witness, software performance, hardware performance, project manager, trade secret expert witness, professional liability, unfair competition, copyright infringement, arbitration, litigation, mediation, due diligence investigations, computer technology expert witness, technology expert witness, internet expert witness, e-commerce expert, technical architecture expert witness, technical infrastructure expert, ERP expert witness, CRM expert witness, information technology expert, information technology outsourcing expert, computer outsourcing expert, software outsourcing expert

WSR Consulting Group, LLC provides expert analysis re: software project estimates, computer project staffing, software project management and progress reporting . compliance with applicable commercial and industry standards & methodology (including PMBOK, SWEBOK, IEEE, ISO-9000, Mil-Spec standards, METHOD/1, Big-4 standards) . cost-to-complete analysis . software defect management systems . system, performance and functional testing, and tuning . scope creep and scope change analysis . schedule delay analysis . IT best practices . consultants use of best practices, consulting industry standards, consultants software development methodologies . consultants' ethics

Disclaimer: The information contained on the www.wsrcg.com website is for education purposes and to stimulate thought, discussion and even controversy. Each real life situation is different! Accordingly, every solution must be tailored to the specific facts and situation at hand. Please contact Warren S. Reid, Managing Director, by phone at 818-986-8842 or by email: wsreid@wsrcg.com to discuss the contents of this website further and how WSR Consulting Group, LLC might be able to help you in your circumstances, or seek professional legal, industry, and/or expert consulting advice as applicable before using any of the ideas and materials contained herein. Please be aware that our "Consultants" resumes may be out of date as they are updated only periodically. Any inadvertent errors in resumes are corrected when discovered. Additionally, more than a few words in the IT industry have imprecise or changing meanings; accordingly please contact Warren S. Reid to be sure the services you are looking for are the ones we offer -- even though we may call it by the same or similar name.