Development Models

Core Software has developed products and applications for many software companies, e-Businesses, enterprises, and manufacturing companies during the last 10 years in operations.

Depending on the needs, time available and the documentation practices, each model is fine tuned for a specific client engagement

Agile Development Model

Core Software has a strong expertise of working with Agile development model for most of our clients in delivering successful projects. This model is best suited for clients who are looking for less emphasis on documentation, high teamwork, collaboration and rapid results. A version of the Agile model frequently used involves 4-6 weeks Sprint cycles and weekly Scrum meetings. Implementing an Agile model with us helps you:

• Develop products and applications rapidly with minimal documentation
• Accommodates changes in client needs and specifications
• Involve your team with our consultants in development
• Build a competent co-development team for building your products and applications with high visibility, tight budgets and least overheads

Waterfall Development Model

In some development projects, the complete set of requirements can be accurately identified in advance. This allows the development team to predict, to large extents, the nature of flow of the project and thus, structure the entire development process into phases, with clear deliverables at the end of each phase. This methodology is the sole purpose of the widely known Waterfall Model.

When approaching the most basic of projects, Core Software understands the importance of segregation of modules to allow smoother delivery. The significance of this task becomes even more evident in the case of large and stable projects. The Waterfall Development approach is primarily beneficial in projects that consist of pre-optimized, working processes that need to be automated.

The simple structure of the Waterfall model ensures that there is limited cross-team communication during the development process as all tasks are well defined. The entire project is broken down into extremely structured phases and each phase is directly dependent on the successful completion of the previous stage. The single team involvement at each phase makes the project easier to manage. This feature is particularly supportive when determining estimates for the project and its phases. The Waterfall Model has numerous benefits:

• Have better documentation and plan projects through milestones and documents
• Manage costs and budgets with a planned schedule
• Easy coordination of large project teams
• Manage resource risks, technical risks and projects better

Rapid Application Development (RAD)

This development model uses a combination of rapid cycles of iterative development and prototyping. Rapid cycles of prototypes and iterations yield new business requirements for each subsequent cycle. This model is used for products and applications that need high collaboration between stakeholders and the development teams for the evolution of a complex product. Advantages of this model are:

• Global product development through active involvement, collaboration and cooperation across teams
• Reduced risks through complete visibility and accountability at each stage of the product development life-cycle with active user involvement
• Short (2-4 week) development cycles with quick starts
• Iterative, feature-based delivery
• A potentially shippable product at the end of the cycle
• Adaptive rather than predictive
• Testing is integrated throughout the life cycle enabling the regular inspection of the working product as it develops
• QA and Testing