Software Development

Our Practices to Ensure Successful Project Delivery

Vantage Point teams ensure that project goals are achieved, costs and time are predictable, and uncertainties are addressed agilely. You are welcome to check the descriptions of our project management and development practices supported by samples from our recent projects. We also overview the dirty market practices and traps to avoid.
If you wonder how our approach will work in your case, want to see a project similar to yours, or have any other questions about your initiative, feel free to contact our consultants.

Quality Control

Check the controls behind our ISO 9001-certified management system and explore software quality and project health KPIs we use. We also describe quality controls specific to each SDLC stage.
Scoping

Discover our requirements engineering, feasibility assessment, and scope mapping practices. The page also explains our approach to Agile scope change management and scope creep control.
Risk Management

Visit the page to understand major software development risk factors and explore our risk control and mitigation activities across various SDLC stages.
Reporting

Explore metrics we use to evaluate cooperation efficiency, our progress reporting tools, and sample project reports.

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Development STEPS

It takes from 2 weeks to:

Document key business processes and how they’re covered with existing software.

Elicit business needs and concerns.

Evaluate risks of new software introduction, e.g., impact on business processes, and plan risk mitigation measures.

Draw up high-level functional and technical software requirements.

Prepare the list of software features and integrations.

Draw up a project roadmap and major milestones.

For commercial software products, it additionally takes from 3 weeks to:

Conduct competition analysis (competitors’ product features, pricing & monetization models, customer feedback analysis, customer acquisition strategy analysis, product efficiencies and drawbacks).

Analyze the needs and wants of the target audience and create a product concept.

Define product differentiation and formulate a unique selling proposition for a product to stand out from the competition.

Describe obstacles that can hinder entering a given market or industry sectors (including regulatory barriers) and decide how to address them.

It takes from 2 weeks to 3 months to:

Define app architecture, techs, data flow and integration points.

Note: If possible, ScienceSoft will re-use parts of your existing enterprise systems rather than develop new software modules, for lower cost and higher reliability of your software.

Conduct UX research, outline personas and key user scenarios, prepare user journey maps.

Create wireframes and clickable prototypes.

Conduct visual identity analysis, prepare design concept, create a branded UI kit with ready-to-use components (icons, buttons, colors, fonts, etc.), animations, specifications and assets for developers.

Note: We recommend investing in the unique, sophisticated UI design only if the design is a competitive product advantage. Otherwise, we use simple themes and focus on software functionality.

Agile delivery of new software parts in 2-week releases. Continuous safe minor releases via automated CI/CD pipelines.

Analysis of emerging needs and the release planning.

Approving the release scope.

Delivering and reviewing mockups.

Developing and testing the approved software part, migrating the developed software part to the staging and production environment.

Getting feedback from a project sponsor and users on the results of the release.

Reviewing the results of the completed release and approving the scope of the next release.

Note: Small, well-defined projects can be delivered in a linear mode with one major release.

Conducting user acceptance testing (UAT).

Establishing software monitoring processes.

Defining new roles and responsibilities for application support in your and our teams.

Note: Vantage Point recommends trial implementation for a limited number of users to minimize possible downtimes in production. Trial stages usually take up to 1-3 months.

Conducting project evaluation.

Performing knowledge transfer to your in-house IT team/other vendors.

Providing the final report and requesting your confirmation for the project closure.