Our Value Proposition
3months combines the right:
- People - a highly experienced, cohesive and friendly team
- Process - the Agile process (our entire team are certified ScrumMasters)
- Technology - the Open Source Ruby on Rails framework gives unparalleled productivity
to achieve the following benefits for our clients:
Get to market quicker - 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 (typically one to three months), sprints (two week "mini-projects" that results in fully tested, integrated functionality) 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.
Save money - We truly believe we can give you the best value for money in the industry. 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. If the project is going to fail then fail early before too much money has been spent (we won't tie you up in long-term contracts). We only use Open Source software. No licence fees, no hidden costs.
Business empowerment and 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 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 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).
Innovate - 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 experience is that the most exciting innovation occurs when experienced and motivated business domain specialists and our team of passionate technical experts actually sit in a room together and start creating working software within an Agile framework. 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.
Build quality in from the start - Agile practices such as pair programming, test first development and incremental delivery ensure that quality is baked in. Our preferred development framework, Ruby on Rails, is considered by many people 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.
No constraints - if you've worked with general purpose CMS products and found that the effort and cost quickly spiral upwards when you want to do things that they weren't designed to do (e.g. you want to innovate), you will love Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails has no constraints.
Accessable & standards compliant - We believe strongly in international (W3C/WAI) and national (e-government) web standards - this will give you futureproofing and ensure that you site is usable by everybody.
We'll share in your risk - 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.