Whether on-prem or cloud or hybrid, our application development approach starts with understanding business processes, system mission, division/agency capabilities. Accordingly, we will come up with key requirements, constraints for architecture, and business requirements for system development by working with the system owners/stakeholders. We will use appropriate modernization techniques. Our development approach is process oriented, based on lean principles and cost-effective measures. Based on the type of Application Development we take it through our phases – Business Case, Architecture and Requirement, Execution, Release, Operation, and Support. Our phases are defined with appropriate templates for each phase and supported with our Reference Architecture (RA) patterns, design patterns to make sure it is not handled in an ad-hoc or not well thought out way (which typically happens in many contracts throughout different phases that increases the overall cost). Also with our methods, we eliminate reinventing wheels to be cost effective. We will provide our solution via Architecture document that consists of Data Architecture, Application Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, and Security Architecture. As part of our Data Architecture, we will identify the source of truth for data/System Of Records (SOR), avoid redundant SORs. As applicable we will use some of our applicable system wide information management patterns to avoid data issues, make integration with other systems and maintenance easier. Our Infrastructure Architecture will make sure the application’s infrastructure requirements are met including High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR). If it is a cloud-based application, we can provide a cost-effective architecture for DR based on system needs. Our Security Architecture will make sure besides your standard compliance requirements, application specific controls are met and it is automated to the most part. Our Architecture and associated design document will drive the development from a technical standpoint. We will also apply our application modernization techniques right from Architecture to design and development. For containerization/other modernizations refer to our Application Modernization service.
Our Front-end design is based on constructs of Human Centered Design (HCD) principles, focused on the end user’s usability, efficiency, and other standards. In addition to the front end, the whole system design will be focused on ease of application maintenance, ease of scalability following industry standards, and best practices. We will follow the configuration driven plug and play architecture for different layers of application among other applicable RA patterns. With this, it will be easy to add, remove application layers/services/integration points at run time. We truly embrace and follow Test Driven Development (TDD) which is a very critical foundation layer for a successful CI/CD, besides identifying bugs at early stages to resolve and be cost effective.