Customized Solutions Through Efficient Processes
Solutions our Clients Love
Crowell Solutions believes in creating software that our customers can rely on. We believe in creating solutions that fit their needs and are customized to the way they do business. Overall client satisfaction is what drives our development and management practices.
Leveraging Feedback
A big factor in creating successful solutions is the ability to know what the customer really needs. The ebb and flow of how a business operates presents a challenge to anyone creating solutions to accomidate a business's desire to be more efficient. There needs to be a direct channel for communication between developers and the customers.
A Flexible Plan for Action
The solution requirements typically change during the development cycle depending on what the client requires. Most businesses have a better picture of how they operate and how solutions can best fit their needs by "test-driving" core functionality and making changes through feedback sessions. A big hurdle in traditional project management processes is the lack of flexibility when requirements are changing during the course of development. This is a primary reason why software often times have "features" that don't exactly fit with the clients expectations. Crowell Solutions believes in implementing development processes that employ strategies that enable constant feedback from customers. This results in software that truly matches the requirements the clients have. That is why Crowell Solutions beleives in the Agile Methodology.
Agile Methods
Agile methodologies help provide ways that the development team can effectively develop solutions while taking into account the varying changes in requirements given by the customer. The agile methodologies facilitate a means to do this by employing some key tenets:
Determine core functionality
Software solutions are broken down into feature sets. These sets are developed and integrated continuously throughout the lifetime of the project. Initial functionality is determined and developed first in order to have an operating solution that clients can use and can be improved upon until the final release of the application.
Release functionality in managed time frames
Typically called "sprints" or "gates", a software application that is segregated into feature specific releases allow the customer the ability to observe the progress of the features released and fine-tune them. Crowell Solutions prefers 30 day featurereleases so that they can be checked by the customer. Once feedback and final integrations are applied, these releases will then result in the final solution.
Collaborative development environments
The Crowell Solutions development process involves team collaboration through meetings that enable the development team to work in synch during the project life-cycle. Continual feedback and analysis of tasks in "scrum" meetings help to maximize developer contribution and encourage creativity.