Softray Solutions: Get IT done in the client-driven age
Written by Selma Ganic, Project Manager at Softray Solutions
Selma Ganic, Softray’s Project Manager, provides a thorough insight into the process of turning your idea into a digital reality. With a set of articles, she is covering the most important processes within the Discovery Phase and the Implementation Phase. Read how #wegetITdone the right way.
Softray as your trusted partner
In today’s digitalized world, a successful business is often an efficient one. Innovative, modern process management techniques are aimed to match novel business requirements that are crucial to take your business from good to great and that will guarantee your clients’ satisfaction. Choosing Softray will enable you to elevate your product’s value through competitive and innovative software solutions across multiple technologies by highly experienced European engineers that fully cater UX and emphasize your user-oriented product experience.
You have a business idea? Sounds great but bringing that idea to life might be challenging.
Therefore, if you have a business idea but you don’t know exactly how to start, we thought to share with you some information about a project’s journey, from idea to project launch and facilitate your decision of choosing the right project partner.
Let’s implement your idea together
All projects start with the idea, a driving force that can bring the project to rocket skies. Having a good idea is important, however, even good ideas turn into unsuccessful projects due to the poor project execution. Having that in mind it is natural that contractors are skeptical when choosing their project partners and in order to confirm that Softray Solutions is the right partner to implement your idea, we’ve decided to share our processes flow. With the series of process flow articles, we want you to gain full understanding of the processes to expect.
Every project begins with the Discovery Phase
The discovery and architecture phase are a complex service tailored to bridge the gap between a business idea and a targeted IT solution. Performing thorough analysis and planning during the software architecture and discovery phase (or predevelopment) could prevent many unexpected failures and identity potential misunderstandings. The Discovery Phase is an initial stage of the project planning that will show if the project partner you have chosen is the right one. It is important to choose a partner that combines software company expertise and services in business analysis, architecture, technology, design, and agile process establishment.
Discovery Phase as a standalone project
The discovery phase of a software project is a meticulous process that includes market research, systematization of a client’s requirements, analysis of the product’s relevance and viability, estimation of the development costs, and often, creation of the MVP and visual demos.
The very first step of the project discovery phase is to determine the optimal architecture and functionality of a future system. The method of a MoSCoW matrix is commonly used in order to help key stakeholders understand the significance of initiatives in a specific release. The acronym, MoSCoW, stands for four different categories of initiatives: must-haves, should-haves, could-haves, and will not have at this time or simply called as a wish.
This is where the experience and expertise make a big difference.
Discovery phase is a standalone project, it can be delivered by the third-party contractor, project owner itself, or the company chosen to develop the project.
In case you are an experienced project owner and have detailed project requirements, the discovery phase will last shorter and include project requirements polishing, identification of possible minor nuances, project cost and top architecture layer.
Structure of Software Product Discovery Phase
Thinking of the right structure for mastering your project vision will lead you to take into account all known references about your contractor. Be sure to hire one that employs top-notch tech-savvies and business analysts, whose team offers meticulous devotion to detail and is capable of identifying the product’s market relevance.
Research and Idea Requirements. The initial stage includes a thorough understanding of the idea behind the project and a review of the presented idea. In case you have an idea without the project specifics, the Softray team will help you with an in-depth detailed project assessment and requirements identification in order to determine the project size.
Top architecture layer. The main goal is to define the primary layer architecture in order to identify technologies that should be used within the project and that will, consequently, affect the price.
Deadlines and milestones. Identification of project deadlines and important milestones.
Project estimation and team structure definition. It is a final step before the implementation phase where a technical person is assigned to make an estimation on the project implementation. It is necessary to provide the time required and the team member profile to deliver the final project. The final product of this phase is the predicted cost of project implementation and the team’s profile. After the acceptance of the listed price and requirements, the implementation phase can begin.
Each of these stages is composed of smaller ones and requires a perceptive team to perform them properly and successfully lead to the Implementation Phase.
Don’t miss our next article covering all stages of the Implementation Phase.
Softray Solutions is an enterprise software development company with extensive business expertise whose team is well-experienced in conducting effective discovery phases. If you think we can help you in turning your idea into digital reality, contact us.
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