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To ensure that our clients always receive top-quality products/service on time
and within budget, Barion employs a rigorous project methodology, which is premised
on a holistic view of systems engineering. This approach recognizes the vital importance
of human interactions - between our management team and our clients, as well as
between our clients and the systems we build.
After all, meeting or exceeding client expectations is our ultimate goal.
Requirements Gathering
Careful requirements gathering is an essential first step in any software development
project. In our experience, the time spent up front to gather detailed functional
requirements eliminates process delays, improves system quality, and greatly reduces
"function creep" with its associated cost overruns. In addition, requirements gathering
lays the foundation for a framework of mutual education, brainstorming, negotiation,
and progress tracking.
At the start of every project, Barion project leaders work together with the clients
to develop a detailed understanding of their needs. This process typically involves a
series of meetings where our software and database experts collect functional requirements from users,
resolve conflicting requirements, establish and prioritize project goals, and identify
critical risk and success factors for the project.
Project Specification
Once the functional requirements have been gathered, Barion project leaders work with the client
to translate those requirements into detailed project specifications. At this stage, the team
resolves any conflicting views of the product or the overall project goals, defines the
interaction of the product with each user group within the client's organization, and
establishes a delivery time and cost estimate for the project.
From our experience with past projects, we recognize that it can be difficult to
predict how a complex system will perform and how it will look and feel, until it
is deployed. For that reason, the best approach often is to build a prototype system
at first and then make iterative refinements, adding new functionality as needed.
Project Execution
As a project moves into the development phase, Barion local team maintains continuous
contact with the client and with our programmers to ensure accurate communications
and constant project oversight. Our managers and quality control team supervise
every detail of the project and report weekly to the US office. This uncompromising
approach to quality assurance and project oversight provides complete accountability
for every stage of the project and ensures that the final product fulfills or exceeds
the client's expectations.
Quality Assurance
In today's highly competitive marketplace, releasing new software quickly is often
the key to success. There is tremendous pressure to be the fastest to market with
the right product or service. However, the accompanying sense of urgency can lead
to shortcuts that compromise product quality, resulting ultimately in unsatisfied
customers, lost revenues, and a diminished reputation.
With Barion, you will not sacrifice quality to achieve timely results. Our software
quality assurance (SQA) procedures start the day the project specifications are
finished and continue until the project's completion. Barion has developed an on-line
system Project Tracking System that allows our team members and clients to monitor
quality assurance, input SQA issues, track bug fixes, and follow project item changes
at their desktops.
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