Application Development – See the Difference Optimization Makes!

See the Difference Optimization Makes – Step 1

 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 1

Design High Level Solutions

Step 1 breakdown:

1.1 Get the right people involved
1.2 Establish a High Level Design Specification
1.3 Optimize for Business and Regulatory Compliance
1.4 Obtain Stakeholder Approval

 

Completing this first step will allow you to:

  • Proceed with high level design knowing you will have the right people involved at the right time.
  • Minimize design rework by maintaining alignment with business and regulatory concerns.
  • Build for a detailed design from a strong and approved high level scope.

Further breakdown:

1.0 Design High Level Solutions
1.1 Get the Right People Involved 1.2 Establish a High Level Design Specification 1.3 Optimize for Business and Regulatory Compliance 1.4 Obtain Stakeholder Approval
Involve Business and IT Stakeholders in the Design Process Determine the Right Approach to Design Creation Understand the importance of compliance checks Obtain Stakeholder Approval for the High Level Design
Understand Resource Constraints and Develop Mitigation Strategies Understand the Design Process Mitigate the Difficulties of Managing Compliance Ensure Stakeholders are Kept Up-To-Date with Project Progress
Build the High Level Project Team Determine the Right Approach to Design Documentation
Build the High Level Design
Specify the Impact of the Design on Other Projects

 

Getting the high level solutions nailed at the first step will set you up for success. We will outline next steps in future articles.  If you are interested in more detail please contact us at the e-mail below.

This is the second article in a series on Application Development – outlining the first step of designing high level solutions. 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