Development Methodology
Proven software development methodology is a foundation of success for your business initiatives. We employ and assist with adopting modern methods and best practices of software delivery, including agile, iterative and hybrid processes and techniques.
Methodology Categories
Agile
Adapt to changing requirements while frequently evolving solutions
- Design Simplicity
- Continuous Delivery
- Technical Excellence
- Self-organization
- Daily Cooperation
- Team Motivation
Iterative
Deliver solutions through repeated cycles and in smaller components
- Feedback-driven Design
- Test-first Development
- Top-down Programming
- Integration Engineering
- Evolutionary Delivery
- Iterative Refinement
Hybrid
Strike a middle ground between agile delivery and waterfall oversight
- Structured Design
- Frequent Iterations
- Customer Involvement
- Stakeholder Management
- Robust Documentation
- Process Governance
Methodology Frameworks
Agile Methodologies
Adaptive Planning and Continual Improvement
Information technology visionaries and practitioners have come to the understanding of better ways of developing software, with compare to historically adopted waterfall approach. Modern, agile methods of IT project delivery value the following key factors of successful software implementation process:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
The highest priority of agile methodologies is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of high-value features of the software system under construction. The more frequent and real these features are, the better their consumer is positioned on the market, while becoming more confident in the overall success of the target system. Small teams of motivated individuals will ensure feature quality on the shorter timescale.
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Agile processes promote sustainable delivery, where project sponsors, developers and users are able to maintain a constant pace.
The highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable features.
Working software is the primary measure of progress, and continuous attention to technical excellence is the key to solution flexibility.
Disciplined Agile Delivery
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is an open framework that enables simplified decision-making around incremental and iterative development process.
Lean Software Development
Lean software development is an adaptation of Lean manufacturing principles, practices and techniques to the information technology industry.
Scrum Process Framework
Scrum is an agile process framework for managing knowledge work, with an emphasis on software development lifecycle oversight.
Extreme Programming
Extreme Programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve product quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements.
Iterative Methodologies
Iterative Design and Incremental Development
Iterative approach to software development implies not just revisiting work but also evolutionary advancement with each subsequent iteration. Incremental development leads to an early-stage, more thorough system shakedown, and avoids delivery team and project stakeholder discouragement.
Carefully managed and strictly controlled sequence of analysis, design, development and deployment phases of the project, with multiple repetitions of the complete lifecycle, ensures that higher-quality features are delivered to the customer ahead of schedule. In the meantime, it allows to accommodate new requirements and mitigate initially unknown risk factors — typical case for systems of medium to high complexity.
Iterative methodologies make possible to deliver a sequence of intermediate system revisions, each verifying the viability and quality of the included components. With each intermediate release, delivery team takes advantage of what was being learned from the development and use of the previous system revision. Key steps in the process are to pilot a subset of the features, and iteratively enhance the evolving release sequence.
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Quick user feedback corrects the course, while increasing detail, scope and fidelity at each iteration.
Multiple design options are entertained and prototyped simultaneously, leading to superior end results.
Evolutionary technique delivers complex system in small steps, with each having a clear measure of successful achievement, as well as fallback possibility.
Open Unified Process
Open Unified Process (OpenUP) is an adaptable process framework intended to be tailored by the development organizations and project teams.
Feature-driven Development
Feature-driven Development (FDD) process blends a number of industry-recognized best practices driven from a client-valued feature perspective.
Dynamic Systems Development
Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) is an iterative project delivery framework, initially used as a software development method.
Adaptive Software Development
Adaptive Software Development (ASD) combines the ideas of complex adaptive systems theory with the philosophy of Rapid Application Development.
Hybrid Methodologies
Blended Agile and Traditional Best Practices
Traditional waterfall model proved to be one of the least flexible approaches in software development, where any downstream design changes become prohibitively expensive, and customer experience and feedback cannot be captured sooner than a fully functional system release has been completed.
Although agile method is taking over the industry, one cannot deny a few strengths of the waterfall model: well-rounded decisions, strict process governance, thorough knowledge management and easily understandable phasing. Such factors are critical in stakeholder management and executive reporting.
It is often a wise choice to keep the best of both approaches, and there are several options to make agile and waterfall get along. The realization of the fact that a single methodology cannot be the only hammer to nail all the solutions, the so called hybrid methodologies have evolved to combine the strengths of the two. A hybrid agile-waterfall model is likely to become the lasting approach to most projects ahead.
The main goal of hybrid methodologies is to enable teams to define functional specifications and adapt to changing requirements through continuous feedback and delivery. Such approach embraces the adaptability and flexibility of agile principles, while retaining the tracking system and reporting clarity of the waterfall method.
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You don’t need a complete organizational agile transformation to be effective — most critical elements of agility can be injected into a proven waterfall process.
Preserving traditional methods ensures higher quality through documentation, commitments and stakeholder anticipations on complex, large-scale initiatives.
Informal brainstorming combined with well-organized decision making creates a balance between innovation and compliance.