Application Development Process & Philosophy
The process for delivering application development services at Caorda begins with client goals and requirements, but does not end there. One of the most significant ways that Caorda adds value to your development project is to place it in the context of our in-depth understanding of web technologies and extensive experience implementing web solutions.
What does that mean for your project? It means our philosophy is to ensure we use our expertise to discover and present additional project options and solutions that can achieve your goals better and faster, or which will go well beyond your desired results, while remaining within your budget. Not only will we assist you in defining the scope of your project within your budget, but our extensive experience developing for web, Windows, and mobile platforms will help you evaluate the most appropriate platform or combination of platforms for you.
Project Development Stages
Every web development project coordinated and delivered at Caorda follows industry best practices and a series of high-level stages, as follows:
Our clients come to us with a concept and we work through these stages with our client’s direct involvement to ensure that the delivered product is exactly what’s needed. This is an iterative process where we start with general concepts and refine them as we work through the development stages. We make sure our clients are directly involved so there are no surprises when the application is delivered and to ensure the right product is delivered on budget.
Development Resource & Process Competencies
Developer resources at Caorda have significant experience in many facets of the IT industry with specific core competencies in Windows and web technologies development.
Our web developers have consistently proven their abilities to deliver successful business solutions throughout their collective careers in the high tech industry. Each developer holds two or more of the following industry designations:
- Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
- Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE)
- Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)
- Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
Development Platforms
Caorda develops for various platforms and technologies: Windows client and server, IIS and PHP web servers, SQL Server and MySQL databases, and iOS, Android and Blackberry mobile platforms.
Caorda developer resources have implemented many custom database-driven, web-based and Win32 applications for clients that effectively automate complex business processes and store large volumes of data.
We also have extensive experience in migrating applications from obsolete technologies into modern environments to leverage your existing investment. In many cases we can take old applications that are no longer supported into the modern age by analyzing their structure and source code, creating documentation for them, and migrating them to a current supportable platform. Many of our clients have been able to correct serious performance problems in existing applications or fix and extend old applications after our analysis and migration.
Caorda uses standards-based industry best practices in all aspects of requirements analysis, design, development, and testing. We draw on a number of recognized methodologies in order to find the best possible approach for each project. We follow modern structured design and development methodologies and tools including object-oriented design, iterative development, UML, and test-driven development.