Why "Midwife Services"?

  • Midwives provide coaching, support and assistance for the expecting mother and her child throughout the pregnancy and until after birth.
  • Thereby, they significantly reduce the mortality rate..
  • The mortality rate for projects and product development is rather high (10% to 50% depending on definition and information source).
  • The effect of a ”project midwife” on the probability of success of a project is similar to the effect of a real midwife on the well-being of a mother and her child.
  • Unlike other approaches for improving the probability of success for a project, we focus on common sense and experience rather than on rigid methodologies and administration.
  • Similar to a midwife removing, with a simple sleight of hand, the umbilical cord slung around the neck - thereby saving a life - we focus on the essentials to make an venture a success.

Our Services

  • Support for initialization of your venture.
  • Assistance in creation of business plans.
  • Coaching and supervision of projects.
  • Support and supervision of product developmentg.
  • Risk Management.
  • Coaching and education for project managers.
  • External project management.
  • Support for software design and architecture.
  • Software development (for mobile devices).

Your Benefit

  • Andreas Garzotto GmbH bears part of the project risk for you.
  • This is accomplished by managing the risks based on experience and skills acquired and demonstrated in many other projects.
  • We also bear the risk financially: we prefer a participative business model as opposed to a standard "freelancer" model. Example, to be discussed: Instead of an hourly rate that is directly charged at 100%, we charge 60% directly, 40% as soon as the project is completed according to agreed upon criteria, and 30% upon product success.
  • Our work reduces some of your burden in management: think about future projects and enjoy as your venture grows in a sound way.
  • The project team, and especially the project manager, learns on the job and builds know-how for future ventures.