Application Development

As the chart shows the development process is an iterative process. To produce a successful product or system, on time and on budget that meets the needs of the customer, more time must be spent in the beginning to ensure that the project is base-lined and that the requirements are defined in such a manner that they are unambiguous and definitive. It is a well understood axiom that finding a problem in the requirements phase is much less costly than finding and fixing that same problem in the later stages of development by orders of magnitude. If a problem costs $1.00 to fix in the requirements definition phase, that same problem will cost $10.00 to fix in the high level design phase and $100.00 to fix in the detailed design phase, and so on. The cost to fix in each subsequent phase increases by an order of magnitude.

Our developers have an in depth understanding of this process and realize that spending the appropriate period of time in the requirements definition and high level design phases ultimately leads to a successful implementation.