Overview

Corporate software produced by well-known vendors covers general demands of consumers. However, almost every company has specific needs, which could not be addressed by boxed software. And usually it is non-trivial task: to customize commercial software for really effective use within particular company:

• It is possible that company's IT department does not have necessary skills to write plug-ins, macros or custom applications for a new information system. Skills upgrade or third-party consultancy may cost too much. • Not all companies have IT department, which can take care about customization • There are particular tasks that cannot be solved with a standard features provided by current version of the application, however could be solved with custom development.

Offshore development in this situation is the best possible solution. Kiev Software Factory, Ltd. has been providing offshore development services worldwide since 1992. Kiev Software Factory, Ltd. will provide you with high quality software development service for competitive price.

How projects run

Start up
To start up offshore development project you need… just an idea what the software should do for you. Kiev Software Factory, Ltd. has developed strong practices that can turn any good idea into a technical project.

Flow
The software development process accepted by Kiev Software Factory, Ltd. is based on Rational Unified Process.

It consists of the following stages: • Inception - initial stage when decision about development is accepted. • Elaboration - analysis stage when all requirements are considered • Development - main process stage when all development, testing and quality assurance tasks are performed • Transition - final process stage when development results are deployed to customer with the following technical support, defects fixing, and change requests processing.

Usually each stage goes via several iterations with defined milestones and intermediate releases.

Kiev Software Factory, Ltd. has developed special project management software named APROMiS. This software provides automatic facilities for projects activity registering and reporting.

On this stage the following tasks are performed: • Initial project decomposition • Most critical and risky tasks discovering • Risks investigations • Development proposal preparation

On this stage the following tasks are performed: • System requirements detailed analysis • Software requirements detailed analysis • Application architecture design • Application modules specifications preparing • Final project planning and human resources assignments • Quality assurance planning   The following documents are produced on this stage: • System requirements analysis document • Software requirements analysis document • System design document • Software modules specifications • Calendar schedule plan • Quality Assurance plan

On this stage the following tasks are performed: • Final software architecture development • Coding • Software modules integration • Testing, validation and verification • Quality assurance   The following documents are produced on this stage: • Tested application source code • Compiled executable modules • Final versions of the software modules specifications

On this stage the following tasks are performed: • Deployment documentation preparing (deployment  instructions, user's manuals) • The final delivery preparing and sending to customer • Change requests processing • Defects fixing • Technical support   The following documents are produced on this stage: • Full application delivery that includes: all needed  documentation, the final version of the compiled executable modules and source code • Deployment documentation • Change requests processing results