Process

1. Establish the brief

Exploratory meeting or meetings to discuss your vision for your project and establish your target audience, project objectives and budgets.

2. Create a project specification document

This is the project’s bible and depending on the complexity and duration of the project may appear in several incarnations. The project specification should include issues such as project aims and success criteria, technologies used, platforms supported, potential risks and limitations and matters that need to be taken into account outside the scope of the project, such as anticipated expansions to the project in the future and the manner in which the project fits in with your wider business strategy.

Depending on the complexity of the project, budgets may be finalised at this point if not before.

3. Assign resources

Next, we put together the best team for the job, including specialised skills where necessary.

4. Project milestones

Once the project has been thoroughly specified, resources have been assigned, and all parties have been consulted with on the matter of timings, we will put together a project plan. This will include a series of milestones that indicate when it is time for evaluation.

Depending on the project, milestones might include presentation of a design concept followed by demonstration of a working prototype, sign off for particular functionality, usability and architectural stability testing.

At each milestone we evaluate progress against projected targets in the areas of timings, deliverables, budget and success criteria and make adjustments as necessary.