Hosting
We offer an end-to-end service, building your software and then delivering a performant, scalable and secure hosting environment, so that your system consistently works to its maximum performance.
Our approach to bespoke software development uses the agile methodology, as used by some of the world’s leading organisations including Google and Microsoft. Based on two engagement models, we endeavour to find a project management process that best suits your project and business set up to deliver the most value.
Hosting
We offer an end-to-end service, building your software and then delivering a performant, scalable and secure hosting environment, so that your system consistently works to its maximum performance.
Support
We deliver support agreements that are tailored to your unique requirements, making sure that your software application remains scalable and future-proof, in line with your business' current and future needs.
Our iterative approach follows the Scrum Agile methodology, focusing on communication and collaboration and giving the flexibility to adapt to emerging business realities.
Product Features
Your application is a bespoke product with features aligned to your unique requirements. By breaking down the product into these smaller features, we're able to keep focus on delivering what's really required, tackle the highest priorities first and therefore deliver value earlier than traditional methods.
Sprints
Our iterative approach follows the Scrum Agile methodology. These iterations, known as Sprints, are most commonly 2 weeks long. By doing short iterations, the workload for each is manageable with short and achievable development goals, keeping productivity high throughout the project.
Demo, Retrospective, Planning
Each Sprint begins with a planning meeting, to elaborate on the requirements for the features being developed in the Sprint and to ensure an achievable workload is planned. Each Sprint ends with a demonstration of the features delivered from the Sprint, kick-starting the feedback loop, and a retrospective, to review how the Sprint went such that the process can be refined for the next Sprint.
Stand Ups
The development team meet daily to review the previous day's work and to ensure everyone has a goal for the day ahead. Any blockers to the development process are identified such that they can be removed at the earliest opportunity.
Product Increment
The product evolves each Sprint as new features are added and each Sprint should result in a stable, releasable version of the application. This Product Increment can then be deployed to a user testing environment for feedback or to a live environment for immediate value.
Product Release
A Product Release can be scheduled early in the project, after any number of Product Increments, once it's identified that value to the end user can be realised. Subsequent releases with new features can then be deployed at regular intervals, either by consolidating the development of several Increments into a new Product Release or even each Product Increment itself.
Each software development project is different & our approach depends on the project management style that best fits your needs.
Typically, our team works with you to gain a detailed understanding of your current business processes. We then capture and challenge requirements based on one or more analysis workshop(s).
From here, for an Agile software development project, we break the development down into modular releases & agree a high-level project plan for delivery. Working within the agreed time & cost boundaries for each release, our team continuously engages with you to refine requirements, demonstrate new functionality & gather feedback.
Our software development process is transparent. You can use our online project management tool to:
Projects are delivered either as web-based, mobile or desktop applications.
During development we continuously release versions of the system, each with incremental changes, for you to test and provide feedback. For web-based projects we then host live, test and training versions of the software. All supporting documentation & software source code is also delivered as part of the project handover.