Discovery - let's explore

Our clients rarely come to us with simple problems. Most of them have a challenge that requires an intelligent exploration before either party can be sure about the chances of a successful engagement.

The consultative Discovery process ensures that all interested parties can develop their understanding of the factors that will be key to a successful project. These include:

• business drivers and requirements
• technical requirements, systems and technical architectures
• budgets and estimates
• team structures (yours and ours)
• cultural fit
• project approach and methodology
• dependencies
• quality expectations
• ...and more

This is a joint exploration, where nothing is taken for granted. The documented output from this process is equivalent to a 'blue print' in the construction industry - it establishes the technical vision and architecture for your future application.

An Agile approach - driven by time and budget

We increasingly find that an Agile-based approach best serves our customers. We combine Scrum and other agile methodologies to ensure both speed and high added value to your business. In most cases, the time and budget are fixed, so you can be confident that there will be no nasty surprises with regards to the deadline and the ultimate cost.

The methodology focuses on the iterative and frequent delivery of working products, providing business value. Agile methods encourage all stakeholders (customer and supplier) to focus on mission-critical requirements. The key advantage is that you can count on the project being completed on time, within budget and of the intended quality.

Iterative development - working products

With an agile and iterative development process, your best measure of progress is demonstrable working product. Your application is developed in steps, and after each step, you will see a finished working application that you evaluate with us. There are three advantages to this approach:

• New insights and priorities can be incorporated into the project during later development stages.
• You might not always know in advance precisely what you want your application to look like. Thanks to the iterative approach, you will have a much clearer idea of how the application will look, well before the end of the project.
• Our development approach is highly collaborative. During the development process, you become part of the development team. The closer we can work together, the better the final product will match your expectations.

Retrospectives - learning lessons

We are constantly looking for ways to improve what we do and how we do it. At the end of each development iteration we review, as a team, those lessons we can take into other projects: what was good and what was less good. We also run post-implementation reviews of the entire project with the same aim. No matter how well we do, there is always room to do better.

More information

To find out more about our development methodology and how we can deliver value to your business, please fill in our contact form, or call us on 020 3179 9555.