Communication is the Key to Success

When you hire a development firm for a major data factory initiative, you can't afford to lose site of any part of the project. You need a team you can trust and a partner who gives up-to-the minute feedback every step of the way.

You need constant updates on:

• Overall project progress
• Key deliverables
• Costs
• Risks
• Technology issues
• Market issues

You also need a partner who can help you gain visibility into the marketplace with ongoing feedback built into the process.

Iterative Development Ensures Rapid Development Feedback

We focus on iterative development, providing visible, "pre-releasable" deliverables early in the process. This approaches facilitates aggressive early market testing allowing for:

• Early feedback on key product features and concepts.
• Confirmation of user needs
• An assessment of how the product delivers against needs
  • Architecture
  • Usability
  • Functionality
  • Technical compatibility
  • Creating value
• An opportunity for the customer to have early visibility into the product so they can get a feel for what they are buying
• Market confirmation of progress against time and budget

We organize every project into functional components that can be actively managed and measured - giving all project constituents functioning software to which they can react, providing a real and ongoing gauge of progress and driving consensus.

You're never in the dark. All issues, risks and roadblocks are identified and addressed as early as possible. Our agile software development methodology anticipates changes and allows us to correct course quickly, ensuring that your project stays consistent with your business objectives.

Real-Time Development Updates

Aginity uses an integrated suite of tools to provide real-time visibility throughout the project lifecycle. Our online project dashboard is based on wiki community building principles and technologies and fosters highly productive communication among our development teams. We make these same tools available to our clients.

Our collaborative web-based project portal provides:

• Requirements management
• Project status updates
• An electronic project planning board
• Defect tracking
• Current build of the software (daily builds)
• Source control
• A story repository
• Issue management
• Project metrics / cost / hours
• Billing information
• Travel and expenses reporting
• Quality metrics measurement
• Management reporting