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The Widgetsphere Process:
6 Decisive Milestones
Every opportunity and client organization is unique, but the following steps
will provide for successful projects with the Widgetsphere generation tools.
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Discover
First, we listen to you. Successful engagements always involve clear communication and a deep understanding of the client's business situation. Then study your business rules and practices. The discovery stage is very important as it will save vast amounts of time later.
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Steps:
Stakeholder and Customer Interviews
Application Usage Analysis
Inventory Usability Issues
Competitive Research
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Plan
Most likely your project has many important business goals, with various levels of priority and difficulty. Widgetsphere can be your guide through the planning stages of your applications. We'll carefully study your technical and content constraints, and help you rank everything into an actionable roadmap that can drive the design process.
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Steps:
Goal Prioritization
Project Vision Roadmap
Content Brief
Feasibility Studies
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Model
In this phase, solutions come into view. In essence, we take our detailed understanding of software design and start solving problems in a way that leverages the strengths of our generation products and your business. We continue to modify designs without compromising the integrity of the project. Requirements always change and you must expect that they do.
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Steps:
User Workflows & Conceptual Design
Interaction Design
Prototypes & User Tests
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Build
Depending on the client's level of technical expertise and resources, our involvement in development can be minimal or comprehensive. In all cases, the Widgetsphere generation product delivers robust and complete code from your model. Our out-of-the-box generation templates include OR mapping to perform almost all the grunt work that your talented developers would rather not do. They can spend their time designing more usable software without working about the implementation details.
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Steps:
IT Infrastructure Set-up
Client/Server Development
Integration with 3rd party systems
Support for Development
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Deploy
We make sure that designs are ready before they launch. Because the framework of your application is generated, it is easy to create well-functioning software. All error have been flushed out in the template process. The code created has been tested and is ready to deploy. The QA process for frameworks is minimal. When all development is complete, we work the client's internal IT department to deploy and launch the application at a live production environment.
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Steps:
Quality Assurance
Analysis Configuration
Launch Management
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Manage & Grow
It's not always possible, or smart, to do everything at once. We work with you to ensure that you know the process to make changes to your model. You can guide you through how a solution may grow in the future. We also guide that growth, by continuously evaluating the effectiveness of designs and building on their successes, increasing your ROI.
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Steps:
Tracking Analysis
Measures of Success Evaluation
Development Status
Future Enhancements Plan
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