In a nutshell, you would want to hire us when you need to get a high quality software product for the optimum price, and within the agreed on deadlines and budget.
The article below elaborates on the above bullet points. In addition, the rest of the website provides additional, more in depth information on these and other computer application development topics.
• The planned application will contain at least moderately complex functionality.
We produce high quality results for competitive prices. Accordingly, you would benefit more from hiring us, if the planned application requires at least moderately complex functionality, than you would benefit, if the application is small and simple. Many people can do small and simple work - you don't necessarily need experts for that.
What is a complex application? How do you determine that?
Here's a yardstick for determining this component: if an application is at least as complex or any more complex, and at least as big or bigger, than is ProjectDeveloper.com search functionality described in this PDF file, you can certainly benefit from hiring us.
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• You want to be sure that you will get the best mix of expertise and skills for a reasonably low price.
Successful IT project development relies on a combination of project management, business analysis, application architecture and navigation structure development, usability engineering, programming, as applicable table structure and other objects' development, user interface design and quality control-related tasks.
Project developer works on site and handle all those tasks, where direct interactions with the application's future users contribute the most to the final product's quality. The rest of the application development tasks, including programming, are outsourced to offshore teams, which are separate, highly skilled entities.
However, the programmers whom we work with do not do their work in isolation. Communication processes, sending requirements and testing the results, form a chain of continuous interactions between the project developer and the offshore team.
Working with offshore developers can generate serious savings. Because we pass these savings to you, the customer, you do get the best mix of expertise and skills for a reasonably low price.
Further, if mutually acceptable, we can do bulk of the work for a fixed price and so, that we adhere to specific deadlines. We specify the project development mode already in the beginning of the project and will adhere to any agreements that we will make.
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• You want to be sure that you will get a high quality application that is closely tailored to the users needs and wants and increases productivity.
Project developer's involvement in the project helps to assure that the users get an application that actually meets their needs and wants. Getting to that point requires quite a bit of empathy and willingness to thoroughly understand how the users work with the data and information.
This process also helps to ensure that the user interfaces are user friendly and that the potential for having application navigation and other usability problems is minimized.
Further, there can be a very big difference between having "a database application" and having a database application that has been expertly configured to increase productivity.
Lets say that you need a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application whose primary objective is to increase sales or an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application whose primary objective is to increase resource usage efficiency.
You can buy one of the mass produced applications with minimum customization. Alternatively, you can hire us to look at every aspect of how information is used in YOUR company or organization and how it can be utilized to its fullest, so that the objectives can be set high and will still be met.
Needless to say, there will be a substantial difference between these two options in the project's ROI and user satisfaction. Please see SalesGetter™ CRM as an example of such work.
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• You want to be sure that the people who will handle the application development will take the appropriate measures to prevent the most common IT project development problems from occurring, and will address professionally any problems that will occur.
Ability to anticipate and address problems requires expertise - and that expertise can save you a lot of money.
Application development proceeds in stages, and throughout these stages the project developers help to ensure that the needed results are achieved with minimum time and labor input. This is a rather complex process - and this process alone makes it worthwhile to hire good project developers. If you add up all the hours that different participants put into poorly run projects, and add to that other relevant costs as well, and compare the results to well-run projects, and take the quality of the outcome into consideration, then it becomes very clear that project developer's involvement can generate rather substantial savings for the customer.
Further, project developers deal with quality assurance and quality control as well. Bug fixing is a process where application users assistance is also very valuable, because application users can help to test the application precisely the way they, the users, need and want to use it. However, quality control done by project developer helps to reduce rather significantly the amount of bugs that the users may find.
