Custom Software Development

Why Entrust Your Project to Vantage Point

Our clients trust Vantage Point because they know we have their best interests at heart. We scrutinize each client’s business needs, give pragmatic advice on the software design, and say an honest “no” to unfeasible ideas.

Find Diverse Skills and Experience at Vantage Point

Software Consulting

We gather and analyze your business needs, conceptualize software to cover them, and help you get the best value from its development.

Web development

In web development since 1999, we create all kinds of customer-facing and corporate web-based apps.

Mobile development

Building on the expertise from 300+ completed mobile projects, we can deliver mobile apps for any platform and cover industry specifics (e.g., for telehealth or mCommerce apps).

Desktop development

We develop desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux in C++/Qt, .NET and Python programming languages.

Database development

We help you organize raw data in the most efficient way for analysis and decision-making.

Cloud development

Developing cloud apps, we ensure a rational use of cloud resources to avoid over- and under-provisioning.

API development and software integration

We employ API-driven development to seamlessly integrate custom software with corporate and third-party systems and services.

Software modernization

We improve the usability, refactor code and optimize the maintenance cost of legacy software.

Collaboration

Get an idea of strategic and tactical communication forms we rely on throughout the SDLC. The page shows our collaboration toolkit and a sample RACI-based collaboration model.
Resource Allocation

Explore our approach to composing an optimal development team and understand the difference in resource assignment processes for full outsourcing and team augmentation models.
Cost Estimation

Learn the factors Vantage Point teams consider to estimate costs and check our sample top-down and bottom-up estimates. The page also outlines our cost optimization best practices.
Documentation

Check our software documentation best practices and see examples of documents we deliver across various development stages.

Custom Software Development: Step by Step

Duration: 1 – 3 months.

A dedicated business analyst (BA) or a BA team:

Explores the specific business needs and opportunities, thoroughly documents key processes that need to be covered with future software, considers relevant regulatory constraints.

Elicits, gathers, processes opinions, expectations and concerns of all stakeholders.

Structures and prioritizes the requirements for future software based on business value.

Analyzes risks.

Duration: ~ 2 weeks.

A project manager:

Defines clearly project deliverables and scope.

Draws a project plan and a detailed work breakdown structure.

Composes the team and maps collaboration flows between the team members and with client stakeholders.

Introduces a tailored set of KPIs to measure the project's health.

Conducts the cost-benefit analysis, calculates NVP and ROI.

Prepares a risk management strategy.

Duration: 2 weeks – 3 months.

The team:

Designs the architecture, data flows, and integration points.

(optionally) Defines software parts of your existing software that can be re-used.

Conducts UX research, designs wireframes, prototypes, and interface mockups.

Duration: 4 – 8 months (for the first working version of enterprise software of medium complexity).

The team:

Defines the optimal functional scope for the MVP depending on each feature's expected value for end users.

Codes the MVP relying on the established development approaches.

Duration: 2 weeks – 6 months for each release.

The team:

Ensures safe continuous releases via automated CI/CD pipelines.

Tests software to verify its proper functioning, performance, and security.

(wherever reasonable) Employs test automation to decrease testing time and costs.

Reports regularly on the development progress and build quality.

The team:

Deploys the software. (optionally) A trial implementation can be conducted for a limited number of users and with technical support. The trial stage usually takes up to 1–3 months.

Performs knowledge transfer to your internal team/outsourced support team.

(if needed) Trains your internal users on how to use the solution.

Duration: 1 – 3 months.

The team:

Answers your and users’ after-release questions, resolve user issues (if any).

Manages incidents, configuration changes and updates.