Application Development
See the Difference Optimization Makes! – Step 3
Your Challenge:
- Projects experience cost and budget overruns and fail to meet key requirements.
- Process bottlenecks slow down development unnecessarily.
- New technologies significantly challenge existing processes, contributing to process breakdown.
- QA is focused on the wrong bugs. Issues that should have been solved during development are added to the QA workload.
- Software requirements continually change and developers can’t keep pace.
- Communication between the business and IT is infrequent and unclear.
Our Advice – Step 3
Manage Application Development
Step 3 breakdown:
| 3.1 | Establish Team Structure |
| 3.2 | Select and Appropriate Development Method |
| 3.3 | Manage Development Roles, Responsibilities, and Risks |
| 3.4 | Manage Development Quality and Throughput |
Completing this Third step will allow you to:
- Create a team structure for your project.
- Select the right Agile Mix
- Manage the right quality/throughput trade-offs
- Anticipate common issues and proactively mitigate them
- Create a management approach that keeps stakeholders informed
Further breakdown:
| 3.0 Manage Application Development | |||
| 3.1 Establish Team Structure | 3.2 Select and Appropriate Development Method | 3.3 Manage Development Roles, Responsibilities, and Risks | 3.4 Manage Development Quality and Throughput |
| Optimize the Application Development Organization Structure | Evaluate Agile vs. Waterfall | Understand the Role and Responsibilities of Developers and Managers | Understand the Factors Affecting Quality and Throughput |
| Optimize the Structure of Individual Project Teams | Pick the Right Mix | Understand and Mitigate Key Development Risks | Leverage Software Tools to Improve Quality and Throughput |
| Communicate and Track Changes | |||
This is the fourth article in a series on Application Development – outlining the third step of managing application development. These solutions are based on the experience of Providence Technology Group, Inc. and powered by the research of our partners at Info-Tech Research Group. More information about App Dev is available. Whether you are interested in some proven do-it-yourself tools & templates, want guided app dev implementation or on-site workshops for step by step consultation, contact our experienced professionals at info@provteam.com