1. Planning

It takes from 2 weeks to:

• Document key business processes and how they're covered with existing software.
• Elicit business needs and concerns.
• Evaluate risks of new software introduction, e.g., impact on business processes, and plan risk mitigation measures.
• Draw up high-level functional and technical software requirements.
• Prepare the list of software features and integrations.
• Draw up a project roadmap and major milestones.

For commercial software products, it additionally takes from 3 weeks to:

• Conduct competition analysis (competitors' product features, pricing & monetization models, customer feedback analysis, customer acquisition strategy analysis, product efficiencies and drawbacks).
• Analyze the needs and wants of the target audience and create a product concept.
• Define product differentiation and formulate a unique selling proposition for a product to stand out from the competition.
• Describe obstacles that can hinder entering a given market or industry sectors (including regulatory barriers) and decide how to address them.

2. Business Case Composition

It takes from 1 week to conduct cost-benefit analysis, estimate MVP, ROI.

3. Architecture, UX and UI Design

It takes from 2 weeks to 3 months to:

• Define app architecture, techs, data flow and integration points.

Note: If possible, Edvenswa will re-use parts of your existing enterprise systems rather than develop new software modules, for lower cost and higher reliability of your software.

• Conduct UX research, outline personas and key user scenarios, prepare user journey maps.
• Create wireframes and clickable prototypes.
• Conduct visual identity analysis, prepare design concept, create a branded UI kit with ready-to-use components (icons, buttons, colors, fonts, etc.), animations, specifications and assets for developers.

Note: We recommend investing in the unique, sophisticated UI design only if the design is a competitive product advantage. Otherwise, we use simple themes and focus on software functionality.

4. MVP launch (upon request)

The delivery of the first working version of enterprise software takes from 1 month. The first working version of software product can be delivered in ~ 2 months.

5. Development & Testing

• Agile delivery of new software parts in 2-week releases.
• Continuous safe minor releases via automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Analysis of emerging needs and the release planning.
• Approving the release scope.
• Delivering and reviewing mockups.
• Developing and testing the approved software part, migrating the developed software part to the staging and production environment.
• Getting feedback from a project sponsor and users on the results of the release.
• Reviewing the results of the completed release and approving the scope of the next release.

Note: Small, well-defined projects can be delivered in a linear mode with one major release. Read more on https://www.scnsoft.com/services/software-development

6. Deployment (and 3-Months Maintenance)

• Conducting user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Establishing software monitoring processes.
• Defining new roles and responsibilities for application support in your and our teams.

Note: Edvenswa recommends trial implementation for a limited number of users to minimize possible downtimes in production. Trial stages usually take up to 1–3 months.

7. Project Handover / Continuous Support (ON Demand)

• Conducting project evaluation.
• Performing knowledge transfer to your in-house IT team/other vendors.
• Providing the final report and requesting your confirmation for the project closure.