The Emerging Technology Practice within Tallwave focuses on several areas:
1. Auditing and assessing your existing technology infrastructure and applications.
Building great software is hard work, and the best software and systems effectively balance scalability, simplicity, performance, reliability, generality and features to deliver something that delights users. If you are unsure that your application will scale effectively, or have other concerns around how it is designed or written, we’ll review the code and conduct a full audit, with specific action steps to take to make sure that your software won’t be the limiting growth factor in your business. This audit also includes your development methodologies and practices, ensuring that backups are done and tested, and that your process follows proper release and quality procedures.
2. Designing and scoping your dream application, with careful attention paid to new and emerging technology that may be able to facilitate a faster and better product.
Sometimes an idea is so fantastic that you find out somebody already did it. Maybe that’s a deal-breaker, or maybe it means there is an opportunity to do it better. Ideas that would have cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a decade ago can today be implemented for a fraction of that amount. Open Source tools, databases and frameworks, along with incredible cloud offerings have transformed the application development space in ways that make it possible to launch a company with a fully-functional application in just a few months.
3. Managing the build of your dream application, in a lean way.
Once we understand your vision and strategy, we focus on the product. The trick is not a complete product build though, but to build the minimum viable product, representing the least amount of features (and cost) necessary to validate your strategy. If the product shows a flawed strategy, then we need to pivot and adjust the strategy, which may yield a different product. If the strategy is validated by the product, then we continue to optimize the product.
These managed build services work with a team of developers and designers, either yours or ours, and the development is structured around a scrum methodology with one or two-week sprints. That means that every week or two you will have a new functioning version of your product. What’s been proven time-and-time again is that the speed of iterations is the most important factor when building a software business. How quickly you can change, adapt, react and address features in the market. We keep those cycle times very short, providing you a competitive advantage.