Software Development Consulting

HIRTechnology offers a full suite of software development services. Our experts can completely outsource your entire application development project or provide strategic consulting on different facets of the application development processing including help you:

• Understand the elements of successful software development
• Implement pre-project planning including use of our pre-engagement checklists to ensure our time with you is impactful
• Set the project vision including defining what to leave out, how to get executive sponsorship, set scope targets, and publicize plans and progress
• Create a staffing plan including buildup, organization, and implement tools for areas like time accounting
• Implement requirements development by identifying key end users, interviewing end users, building interface prototypes, and using storyboards/prototypes
• At the start of the project, defining quality assurance practices including creating a QA plan for defect tracking, technical reviews, system testing, beta testing, and rules for release
• Define a software architecture including the characteristics of a good architecture, notation, change scenarios/strategy, reuse of analysis, buy vs. build decisions, requirements traceability, and guides a well-staged delivery plan
• Estimate the project including estimates by milestone targets and burn up/burn down tracking
• Define the plan for requirements, detailed design, construction, test cases, user documentation, technical reviews, defect correction, risk management, project tracking, integration and release, and field proven strategies for achieving quality targets
• Create a detailed design including requirements resolution and traceability, construction plan, correction of architecture defects, and testing plan
• Program/construct the application including defining coding standards, rules for ensuring solid work across team members, daily builds, progress tracking, and a communication plan with customers and management
• Implement and perform system testing including defining guidelines for test group support of daily builds and using an overall strategic approach to QA
• Create and execute a software release plan including determining when to release and tracking of defect counts, defect density prediction/pooling/seeding/modeling