See a real difference in 3months

3months development team guarantees to build business-critical web applications on time, on budget.

3months Agile consulting team can help bring the benefits of Agile to your organisation.

3months combines:

  • a highly experienced and cohesive team
  • an Agile process (our entire team are certified ScrumMasters)
  • the most powerful open source web development frameworks. 

Speed

The world is moving at an ever increasing rate and getting to market quickly or creating real business value early is critical.  We break projects into phases (under three months), sprints (two week "mini-projects") and "stories" (self contained pieces of functionality that can be re-prioritised against business value at any time).

We build the important stuff early and go live early. Go live in weeks not months.

Cost Effective

We truly believe we can give you the best value for money in the industry.  Here's why:

  • We only build the functionality you actually need.  One of the key benefits of the Agile process is that it focuses the team on building high business value features first.  This simple fact can have huge cost savings.  
  • All your money is spent on developing great software that your users/stakeholders actually want - not on architecting stuff that will never get built, writing documentation/specifications/contracts that never get used and endless meetings where nothing gets decided.
  • We don't tie you up in long-term contracts - if the project is going to fail then fail early before too much money has been spent.
  • We have a highly experienced, motivated and effective team.  We have one of the lowest staff turn-overs in the industry and all our team are passionate about what they do
  • Ruby on Rails is now widely considered to be far more productive and maintainable than other web development languages such as PHP/Java/.NET.  According to Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, Ruby on Rails is twice as quick to develop as Java and twice as maintainable as PHP.
  • We only use Open Source software.  No licence fees, no hidden costs.

Flexibility

Not sure of your exact requirements at the beginning?  Need to adapt quickly and easily?  Don't know the detail of what you want until you've seen it?  You are not alone.

In all our projects change is embraced not resisted.    At the end of each iteration we work together to review what has been learned, what has changed and where necessary change the plan.

If your requirements change so do we.

Innovation

Traditionally, innovation occurs only at the "concept" stage of a project - during the development phase innovation is often resisted (considered scope creep).  We believe that innovation should occur at every stage of a project.  Our people, process and technology actively encourage this.  Our experience is that the most exciting innovation occurs when experienced and motivated business domain and technical experts actually sit in a room together and start creating working software within an Agile process.

Business empowerment

At every stage of the project you are in control.  Your project is not considered as one big project lasting months or years but many iterations, each lasting two weeks and each producing working software that can be tested and evaluated.  You and your stakeholders get to see progress at every point and more importantly get to change the direction of the project at any point.  This can range from introducing a new feature into the next iteration through to cancelling the project (failing early, before you've committed too much budget, rather than later).

Partnerships

We believe that software project success is as much about people as it is about technology.  It has to be a partnership consisting of people motivated to achieve a common goal.  Agile is about working as one team as opposed to a client team and a vendor team. 

We believe that a key part of having a successful partnership is risk sharing.  Talk to us about the numerous techniques we have used in the past to share the risk with our clients.

Partnership are for the long-term.  We have been in business for over nine yearsWe hope that the end of a project marks the beginning of a relationship, not the end.  

Open communication

Communication is key to software project success.  We strive to follow the most effective communication technique applicable to your situation and will work with you to vary the approach throughout a project.  A major part of the ScrumMaster role is to optimise communication between all members of the team and stakeholders.  We don't have project mangagment layers that "get in the way" - our clients actually work with our developers (who are all great communicators)

Trust and respect

A successful relationship has to be built on trust and respect.  Everything that we do is geared to helping to build trust and respect with our clients, for example:

  • we encourage "on site customers" where possible.  We find this is the quickest way to build trust when people see us working "warts and all"
  • Our online time management system is open to our clients so that they can see exactly what time has been spent on what at any point
  • We will always be honest and up-front with you

Accountability

When you engage us then we will do everything in our power to ensure success.  New Zealand is a small country and we have spent nine years building a reputation for delivering successful projects.  We usually work to a fixed cost and timeline. 

Technical excellence

Our team consists of some of the best web software developers and architects in the country.  We are continually investing in staff training and R & D so that we can bring the very latest tools, technologies and techniques to our clients. 

We believe strongly in international (W3C/WAI) and national (e-government) web standards.  We have been involved in the development E-government Web Standards and all of our sites conform to industry best practice for accessibility.   This will give you sites futureproofing.