Planning and developing software products to meet strategic objectives
Research process that allows you reduce risks and ensure predictability
Planning and developing software products to meet strategic objectives
OUR DELIVERABLES
OUR ACTIVITIES
From idea understanding to product success
Until diving into the comprehensive concept implementation, Phase 0 Projects include the framework and budget to identify the problem and analyze possible solutions.
Recognize and characterize the objective scope
Clarify and understand the requirements
Conceptualize System Architecture
Business Analysis and Final Selectio
Calculate the effort required for the Detailed Design Phase
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
Clear comprehension of your needs
We enjoy brainstorming creative solutions to challenging problems. Our experts help customers achieve a clear understanding of the product, its goals and functionality and implement it using innovative frameworks and tools
Vision and scope
The discovery phase is a study and planning phase where Business Analysts, Software Architects, and other Aterise experts collaborate to future product strategic vision, outline the scope of work, elaborate the best architectural approach, and high-level development roadmap
Total cost of ownership
We plan and project TCO considering the development budget, support and maintenance expenses, and infrastructure cost. In parallel, we use best practices to find ways to cut both mid-term and long-term costs to reduce TCO for our customers
Software requirements
Focusing on your business needs, not tools
Gathering, processing, formalizing and managing software requirements is a cornerstone for software development processes. Therefore, we pay a lot of attention to collecting and recognizing the software requirements to be complete, clear, and consistent
Usability
For ensuring easy-to-use products in documented expectations (productivity, performance, user friendliness, etc.)
Security
The most crucial and important part in every kind of the software development process. We follow the latest trends of the security mechanisms and encryption for products reliability and image.
Functional
Functions the software must perform (data manipulation, user interaction, business process, etc.)
Non-functional
Needed to ensure the overall software system’s usability and effectiveness, define a software system’s consistency attribute.
PLANNING
The foundation of project transparency
Roadmap
A roadmap is a strategic plan that outlines the main steps or milestones that must be completed to get to the project and product objectives. We help build clear and realistic roadmaps, detect challenges and gaps, prioritize tasks and resource allocation, and set practical targets for project planning
Development strategy
Successful projects are well run. We select development strategies based on business context, budget restrictions and time-to-market requirements. The incremental delivery with reaching an MVP and further continuous improvement is the most common at Aterise. However, a variety of approaches is available for specific cases
Budgets
It’s critical to produce reliable cost estimates for a project. We assist our clients in successfully budgeting for the project and find ways to reduce costs and mitigate budget risks. Our approach to budgeting relies on identifying and accounting all the important cost-centers inside the software development process.
Timelines
During the forecasting and planning stages of a project, we create timelines for the whole project and for each of the milestones, based on the product strategy. Aterise takes into account not only assessed efforts and team composition, but also develops the most efficient feature implementation sequence
Effort estimtes
Accurate and reliable estimations is always a challenge, as it requires multi-factor analysis that includes not only the necessary level of engineering skill for specific tasks, but understanding of the scope interrelations, feature implementation pre-requisites and other constraints. We take the estimation process seriously, considering a variety of factors impacting the realistic effort planning.
Team structure
Depending on the efforts and timelines required we define the team that is appropriate in configuration, expertise, and commitment to your project. Our approach allows to effectively manage time-resources-quality conflicts. In most cases we form full-stack Agile teams that include SCRUM master, UI designers, developers, testers and are supported by DevOps and Business Analysts
Development methodology
Choosing the most appropriate software development approach for your product
Architecture
As the most critical aspect of software development, we plan the architecture of the product to make it easier to manage, improve and maintain. Aterise follows the latest trends and in most cases we use Microservices architecture and Cloud computing
Technology
At phase 0, depending on the solution and the
selected process, we choose the technology that is most suitable for this implementation. We use both the latest technologies and frameworks, as well as proven technologies for quality development of your product
Methodology
Aterise’s experts mostly use Agile to minimize risks. We are certain that this is the most effective way to handle the processes. The key benefit of agile software development is that it allows software to be released in iterations. However, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for all projects. In some cases, we’ve even had success with Waterfall
Tools
Based on project form, certain aspects must be considered when choosing the appropriate development tools. The performance and productivity of the product are influenced by the production tool chosen. We increase the effectiveness and quality of your products by using the most up-to-date development tools that are simple to implement and use
Aterise is always committed to long-term productive collaboration
