About Our Business
agilenty Consulting Group is a specialty
consulting boutique offering quality
management solutions to enterprise
software development organizations. We
also serve such other customers where our
knowledge-base can be leveraged to create
genuine value for our customers. Our mission
is to help clients deliver trustworthy software.
Dr. Peter Patton
Chairman, Agilenty Consulting Group

DR. PETER C. PATTON is Professor of
Quantitative Methods and Computer Science,
at the University of St. Thomas, St Paul,
Minnesota and Chairman of Agilenty
Consulting Group. He has engineering and
mathematics degrees from Harvard, Kansas,
and Stuttgart. and has also taught at the
Universities of Minnesota, Paris, and
Stuttgart. He has also worked as CIO at the
University of Pennsylvania. He was Chief
Technologist at Lawson Software from 1996
to 2002 and Lawson representative on the
Technical Advisory Committee of the IBM
SanFranciscoTM Java Framework project. He
has been involved in computer hardware and
software development since 1955.
Bijay K. Jayaswal
CEO, Agilenty Consulting Group

BIJAY JAYASWAL has held senior executive
positions and has consulted in
quality and strategy. He holds a B.Eng.
(Hons.) degree in Electrical Engineering from
Birla Institute of Technology and Science,
Pilani, India and an MBA and Master's Degree
in electrical engineering from Aston University
in England. He has held senior executive
positions and has consulted in quality and
strategy for the last 20 years. His consulting
and research interests include value
engineering, process improvement and
product development. He has helped
introduce corporate-wide initiatives in
reengineering, Six Sigma, and Design for Six
Sigma and has worked with senior executive
teams for effective implementation of such
initiatives.
Who we are
Major publications include:

• Data Organization and Access Methods,"
Advances in Information Systems Science,
Vol. 5, Plenum Press, 1975, pp. 1-95.

• Data Structures and Computer
Architecture: Design Issues at the
Hardware/Software Interface, Lexington
Books, Washington, D. C., 1976

• Computing in the Humanities, D.C. Heath &
Company 1981 • Computer System
Requirements, D.C. Heath & Co., 1982

• Supercomputer Applications, Scientific and
Technical 240 pp., Industrial and Commercial
60 pp., Consortium for Supercomputer
Research, Minneapolis, 1987

Recent editorial work includes evaluation of
proposals for, and technical editing of, the
following volumes in the Addison-Wesley
Information Technology Series:

• David S. Linthicum, Next Generation
Application Experience, 2004, ISBN
0201844567, 488 pp

• Anne Thomas Manes, Web Services, 2003,
ISBN 0321185773, 322pp

• Dan Sullivan, Proven Portals, 2003, ISBN
03211125207, 196pp

• Ravi Kalakota, Marcia Robinson, Services
Blueprint, 2003, ISBN 0321150392, 354pp
Software trustworthiness is a huge issue for both software
developers and users. We, however, firmly believe that the
challenge of delivering trustworthy software is no more formidable
than a host of hardware products whose trustworthiness we take
for granted. Our study reveals that the underlying causes of
software reliability issues are no different from those of hardware
and manufactured products: lack of management commitment to
customer needs, ineffective development process, and inadequate
people resources. Our proprietary Design for Trustworthy
Software (DFTS) system offers a powerful methodology to deliver
trustworthy software with remarkable improvement in reliability,
cost, and cycle-time, and consequently in overall customer
satisfaction. DFTS can thus be deployed to improve not only the
bottom-line but also strengthen competitive and strategic position.
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