Process

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Planning Ahead

Before you decide to work with us, we help you analyze and plan your project. This, in turn, will allow you to determine the scope of your project and exactly what you need to accomplish it.

Our Fit Once your needs have been identified, we’ll see if and how we are the right people for you. Clarity and frankness have been two important reasons for our success over the past two decades. We enjoy working to improve things for our clients, but if we’re unable to help, perhaps we can give you advice on finding the kind of people who can help.
Paint the full picture Once we agree that working together is a good idea, we’ll ask all the questions necessary to determine what can be done and how to do it. Doing this thoroughly can save an enormous amount of time and energy later, so bear with us.
Budgeting Because we are always realistic, we will guide you in setting a suitable budget. When you’re happy, we will then start to build a proposal within that budget.

The Process We Follow

1.Strategy

Once we’ve understood your needs, we start planning how we can meet them and how we can remove as much uncertainty as possible. We define whatever challenges might lay ahead, how to deal with them, and determine any other actions required to execute the plan.

Design Sprint

The first stage of the project is a one-week long design sprint. ٌThe design sprint is inspired from Google Design Sprint, and its primary objective is to answer critical business questions through the design, prototyping, and testing of ideas. The final output of the design sprint is a design prototype of the website or mobile app. We then discuss this prototype with you, and once the final prototype is approved, the development team starts working on subsequent ‘development sprints’ that are 2 weeks long.

2.Prototyping

This is when we build a fully clickable prototype that can be shared with all stakeholders who can then review it with our technical team. At this point, we determine the most appropriate software and development architecture. If you
already have a design, we will evaluate it to make sure that it fulfills all the necessary requirements. If it requires any enhancements, our design team has you covered.

Wireframes

Our team includes UX designers that are well versed in creating visually satisfying experiences. Working closely with your team, we build the desired experience for users. Throughout the design process, we get regular feedback from you to ensure that we stay aligned with your vision.

Technical Architecture

Each project is unique and requires a tailored combination of technologies. We’re experienced with many different technologies, and so we can select which of them will best serve a project with regards to scalability, stability and cost. A solution architect is involved at this stage to assess feasibility.

Planning

Once we have a clear vision of your objectives, we define the deliverables and note major features and dependencies. Requirements are shared with
the team to make the objectives clear.

3.Development

Once you’ve given us the go ahead, development starts. Our technical team is led by a scrum master who pairs with your project manager. All our projects are overseen by the solutions architect so you are never without support if issues arise. Our developers are dedicated to your project so that quality stays high.

Scrum Agile

Our teams use scrum agile methodology to drive results for our clients. Your project manager stays in close contact with our scrum master to ensure efficiency and to provide sufficient visibility and structure.

Sprints

We work in two-week sprints to allow flexibility, adaptation to change, and to introduce new ideas. We keep you involved at every step of the process, and this allows us regular feedback and the ability to resolve any issues quickly.

4.Launch

We support your project through the launch phase and take care of server setup, data storage and deployment. If your project requires deployment to the app store, we handle that process for you as well.

Deployment

Part of the development process involves setting up multiple development environments that allow our team members to deploy quickly and show you
everything that is happening. Showing work results in a client-facing development environment will identify visual and technical issues more quickly. This of course results in a better product.

Quality Assurance

When appropriate, we automate deployments and structure the development ecosystems to be scalable. We seek to automate testing of features to ensure operability after a new code is added. Additionally, project managers and our inhouse quality assurance engineers review user stories before the work reaches production.

5.Maintenance

When the project is ready to be launched, we help you mitigate launch risks. Moving forward, we can seek users’ feedback, respond to support inquiries, plan for new features required by your users and stay flexible as your business grows.