Today's corporate IT departments are being stretched to their limits. The CIO needs to quickly deploy new IT applications to streamline and integrate the IT with the ever evolving business processes and changing customer needs. And, the success for this development is depended on timely implementation with limited budgets translating into a faster ROI. Spectraforce Development services are geared to meet these requirements of lower total costs of IT spending and increased and faster ROI.

The cornerstone of success of any application development effort is based on robust methodologies. We at Spectraforce recognize that not all development projects are the same and that a cookie-cutter approach cannot be used across all projects. Therefore, Spectraforce evaluates each project individually to determine which methodology is appropriate.

Based on our detailed assessment for the project needs, we use one of our proven methodologies to implement the project.

Some of our key development methodologies are:
SpectrAgile
SpectraWave
SpectraCascade

SpectrAgile provides our clients with a competitive advantage by leveraging Agile programming principles to maximize ROI. Simply put - our guiding ethos behind this methodology is to 'maximise the work not done'. The Agile development approach is optimized for handling changing requirements even late in development phase. Early and continuous delivery of working software ensure that both customer satisfaction and team motivation remain high. Utilization of techniques such as refactoring, pair programming early testing and frequent builds result in significant reduction in defects while providing higher transparency and lowering risks and costs. And to top it all - the need to maintain a constant pace necessitates close interaction between all stakeholders and makes the entire process more fun !

For the new technology environment, such as J2EE or .Net, that demands modular object-oriented application development, Spectraforce has developed the SpectraWave methodology that uses a "spiral" approach to application development. The approach is an adaptation of the Microsoft Solutions Framework, the recommendations from the Object Management Group (OMG), Unified Modeling Language for notation and the Rational Unified Process. The iterative nature of this methodology allows Spectraforce to overcome the shortcomings of the traditional "waterfall" approach and helps to better align application development to business objectives.

Our SpectraCascade application development methodology is used for developing or enhancing legacy applications, such as Cobol, CICS and C. Under this methodology we assume that each project will not progress serially and that the Project Manager (PM) may divide the development into modules. Therefore, diverse modules may exist in different stages and may be parallel with each other. As a project progresses, each project phase must pass Internal Reviews before the project enters the next phase. The evaluations assess the phase process and methodology; and the phase deliverables. Each phase has its own set of Internal Reviews and Acceptance criteria and may also incorporate user acceptance tests that need to be completed before the project can move into the next phase. While each project may be divided into modules, each phase must pass their Internal Reviews in given sequence.