Leverage the Expertise of Successful Business Leaders
We’re not only technology experts, we’re also entrepreneurs who have launched award-winning products across multiple industries. We have over 100 years of collective experience with all aspects of software product strategy including market research, customer insights, and product ideation. Our lean product strategy approach shortens market launch from years to months, putting your product into the hands of users in record time.
Product Ideation
From high-level product visioning to drilling down into the details, our software strategists work closely with you to understand your product vision. We are experts at identifying and prioritizing the highest-value features to form a well-defined overview of how the product will allow users to accomplish their goals.
Expertise
Brainstorming Sessions
User Role Identification
Key Feature Identification
Feature Prioritization
Competitors and Alternative
Analysis
High-Level Roadmap Creation
Target Device Identification
Technology Fit Analysis
User Insights
Building a product users love means winning their hearts and minds. We conduct research and analysis to understand your target audience’s wants, needs, and desires, then we determine the best way to exceed their expectations.
Expertise
User Research
User Persona Development
User Interviews
Physical Environment Analysis
Computing Environment Analysis
User Need Identification
Kano Analysis
Journey Mapping
Product Concept Validation
Before handing a product vision off to the development team, it’s important to validate the high-level concept of the product. We utilize a variety of tools to “pre-visualize” the product concept to ensure it will deliver on expectations.
Tools
Product Position Statement
Summary of Capabilities
Sales Model
Business Process Workflows
User Workflows
Conceptual Wireframes
Clickable Prototypes
Assumptions and Dependencies
Feature Definition
A key tool to driving an agile software development effort is getting into the details while not slipping into a waterfall-style months-long specification process. We use lightweight techniques to complete the process in weeks instead of months.
Tools
Feature Prioritization
Feature Sizing
Minimum Viable Product
(MVP) Scope
User Stories
User Story Mapping
Business Domain Model
Additional Requirements Definition
An important part of the product vision is discussing and documenting “everything else” besides the core functionality of the product. From regulatory standards to ensuring the product fits into corporate branding frameworks, we perform a lightweight analysis and capture the pertinent details.
Tools
Applicable standards
System requirements
Performance
Requirements
End-User Documentation
Requirements
Labeling and Branding
Standards
Technical Strategy
A critical part of rapid software development is nailing down a key set of technical decisions up front. This guides the development team and avoids surprises. We’ll help you select the right technology and frameworks that will deliver on your business needs and apply best practices to support your sales model.
Tools
Technology and Frameworks
Licensing Strategy
Security Strategy
Deployment Strategy
Multi-Tenancy Strategy
Tenant Provisioning Strategy
Development Strategy
High-throughput production of bulletproof software applications requires a solid architecture and DevOps strategy to support the development team. We’ve created a set of best practices developed over many years of experience, including our Ascendle Application ArchitectureSM—a lightweight, proven approach that supports rapid development while supporting today’s software architecture best practices.
Tools
Architecture Strategy
Source Code Management
Strategy
Quality Assurance Strategy
Automated Testing Strategy
Test Environment Strategy
Continuous Integration (CI)
Strategy
Continuous Deployment (CD) Strategy
Performance Testing Strategy
Execution Planning
It’s impossible to drive the needs of your business if you don’t have a solid understand of the size of the development effort and a schedule estimate. We use agile estimating and planning techniques developed over many years to rapidly create an estimate you can bank on and design the development team and delivery phases to drive rapid development.
Tools
Feature Size Estimation
Estimated Level of Effort
Schedule Projections
Development Team Structure
Phased Implementation
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