Methods
1. Analysis & Discovery - Not billable
We conduct thorough analysis of your requirements and develop a high-level understanding of your vision.
- Requirements, documentation and design management.
- Requirements logically grouped, creating a documented breakdown of the core components and functionality.
- Q&A sessions to refine the requirements.
- Iterative mapping of one or more potential solutions at a high level.
- Decision to proceed or we help you find the right partner.
- Only if we are 100% confident that we are able to fulfil your vision we continue to the next step - this is what makes us different from most of our competitors!
2. Comprehension & Evaluation - Not billable
Discovery of details enabling us to formulate the final cost and accurate timescale estimates.
- Potential process and technical issues highlighted and solved.
- Solution divided into fixed cost statements of work, and further divided into units of work delivered in sprints.
- Potential beyond our engagement highlighted and suggested, sharing our expertise and that of our partners to contribute to your continued success both in business and technically.
3. Development
The build of your product - parallelised where possible.
- We work based on the sprints defined in the Comprehension and Evaluation phase.
- For each sprint we work with you to define what must be done to fulfil the sprint and we plan the tasks and manage the delivery.
- When building combined software, hardwared or electronics we work in parallel - removing the hardware dependencies and bottlenecks.
- At the end of each sprint the delivery is reviewed and signed off.
- If we finish a sprint early we add more work to it.
- If a sprint overruns, we take on the cost, unlike a consultancy model which would pass on the cost to the client.
4. Continuous Innovation
During the build we may highlight better ways to do things - building new technology requires this dynamic approach.
- We constantly review what we are building and look for new or better ways to deliver your project.
- We look for cost saving and performance enhancements along the way - then suggest how to implement them - simple things we include for free complex things we put in a backlog for future enhancement options.
- If regulatory or technology issues arise we highlight this early and we keep you informed whilst conceiving potential solutions.