In addition to ensuring a technically high-quality product, delivered on-time and within budget, it also provides a solution that helps you work smarter, serve your customers better and also generate new sales for your business. This means that we focus more on your business goals than to formally follow the requirements.

Our customers often say that our process helps them to move from concept to customer value.

Business Value Model

Strikersofts combined technology and business process of product development is divided into five separate steps, where each part has clearly defined activities and deliverables. Throughout the process also the three business dimensions are assessed: efficient processes, increase customer value and new business.

1. Goals and needs

The work usually starts with a joint workshop. The major components of the agenda are

GOALS

• Specifies goals, both technical and business
• What problems is to be solved. Status of the problem today.
• More efficient processes – how to save cost in the operations
• Improve customer value - create additional benefits for the customers
• New business - find completely new revenue streams

USER STORIES

• Roles
• User stories by role, as straightforward as possible

3rd party systems

• Identification
• Interface

NON-TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Non-functional requirements such as offline, platforms, performance requirements, UI language, CE requirements, etc.
• Allocation Plan, for example, onsite, cloud, etc.
• Design Requirements

PROTOTYPES

• Definition
• Clickable prototypes / wireframe

2. Evaluation & Planning

After the workshop the results are analysed in the evaluation and planning phase. Here the complete project is planned in detailed before the development is started.

USER INTERFACE

• Graphic design of the wireframe

INFORMATION MODEL

• Defines the relationship between the different objects

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

• Describes the main parts of the system and their relationships

RISK IDENTIFICATION

• Identify, evaluate and produce an plan to minimize the risks

PROJECT PLAN

• A complete project plan is compiled for the next step in the process

3. Development

User stories and the non-technical requirements are broken down into tasks. The scope of a task is a person's work for a short period of time, in order to facilitate follow-up. Tasks are then grouped into Sprint. The result of the development of each Sprint is a working product with an increasingly enhanced functional content, delivered to the customer for testing and feedback.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

• Each Sprint is tested before delivery according to the requirement specifications
• Manual and automatic testing, e.g. automatic UI testing

H/W & S/W DEVELOPMENT

• Every developer receives his own task, which contains a number of well-defined development steps

INCREMENTAL DELIVERIES ("Scrum Sprints")

• Each Sprint is a working product with increasingly enhanced functional content

USER FEEDBACK

• Each Sprint is tested by users and the feedback goes directly into the next Sprint

FINAL TEST

• A final alpha test is done to verify the user stories and the non-technical requirements

Output at each delivery of the new Sprint:

• Change log, the changes compared with last Sprint
• Status report, how the project is doing in relation to the time schedule
• Test report, from the last test of Sprint

4. Launch

The product is ready for delivery to customers

FINAL DELIVERY

• Delivery of final Sprint with full functionality
• Interface to 3rd party systems switched to production systems

IMPLEMENTATION

• The customer puts the system in operation with real users

TRAINING

• Educate maintenance staff, train the trainers

5. Follow-up and Support

Is done based on a SLA (Service Level Agreement) where e.g. response time and monitoring schedules are specified. Maintenance of software contains e.g. software upgrade and new verification of compatibilities.

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