About Us Introduction

A company is distinguished not only by what it does, but also by how it does it. We have focused much of our attention since the founding of Semantech on developing a robust, repeatable methodology. For us, a successful methodology must possess the following qualities:

It must be flexible – the underlying processes must be able to accommodate a variety of scenarios without major rework. In other words, each application of the methodology is customized, but not rebuilt from scratch.
It must be automated – without the ability for all of the pertinent participants to access the shared data underlying the methodology, the processes will not achieve their expected efficiency.
It must provide predefined resources – while all of these can of course be customized, one of the best ways to ensure repeatable processes is the availability of resource templates.
It must be focused on the ends and not the means – any methodology that bends an organization to serve it rather than serving the organization is risky. This happens not merely due to how a methodology is constructed but more due to the application and perception of it by those charged with managing it.

So what exactly goes into a methodology? A methodology is generally considered to be a set of repeatable, predictable processes that are often combined with the use of best practice techniques to support unique scenarios or specific implementation expectations. The types of processes utilized across our methodologies include the following: