Large projects require more than money and time. If this isn't your first big project then you know what we mean. Large projects require foresight, dedication and vision; without these all the money and time you can spare won't save your project.
Foresight, dedication and vision. That's what formed your business. Now it is that grouping of three that can be applied to the next be endeavor that you undertake. Bringing in the right help is crucial to making sure that your goals are realized and that it all gets done when you need it to.
Large projects are investments and like any investment you make there must be a sound set of determining factors in place in order to commit your time and budget. Crucial to your large web project's success is what help you get to see it through. Second Story Designs' development staff has built extremely complex web solutions-- Dealing with data encryption, secure funds transfers, large database manipulation and examination and more.
With Second Story Designs, you'll not only get technically capable effort, you'll also receive attention to detail and a forward vision, aiming to side-step potential obstacles. If you haven't done a project like this before, you may not know about some common pitfalls. Second Story Designs has experience and can identify areas where you may stumble or worse...fail.
Hardware is for sure a consideration with this project. If you are contemplating a project that will include software development time of over 40 hours, you are prepared to make a sizable investment. However, have you considered your infrastructure? Perhaps you are using a 3rd party to host your applications now, is that still the right decision? Do you know enough to make that determination or would an extra set of eyes on your plan make a lot of sense. Second Story Designs has worked on applications that support thousands of concurrent users and manage millions of transactions. We can help.
Don't let the experience of Second Story Designs fool you into thinking that we are a "Big 4" consulting monster. Not so. Any person who claims to be knowledgeable about the ways of big projects should honestly tell you that a battalion of contractors will first create a hill of paper-work that is dwarfed only by the mountain of invoices you receive. Second Story Designs has been through all that and learned from it. The weight and volume of your project team must be appropriate to the size of your project. Second Story Designs never wants swoop in on a company with a dozen back-packed Blackberry warriors. That simply creates meetings, not working code.
Second Story Designs' methodology for software development is based on the Agile method. With Agile, there are several guiding principles; chief among them the value of collaboration and teamwork over excessive process and documentation. If you've been trapped under a 3-ton weight called UML, you might see the value in that. Agile does not, however, throw process to the wind. Instead, it plucks common sense from the whirlwind of busy-work and applies simple to understand documentation and metrics to your project. For instance, another of Agile's precepts is that:
"The only measure of progress is working code"
If you've ever gotten a weekly status report that read "great progress made, process review documentation and up-front task-assessment complete", you might see why a tangible, quantifiable measurement is preferable to double-talk.
Second Story Designs is a small company with big skills. Let us help your company step up to the next level.
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