Bespoke Software Development

Developing a successful software product is as much a marketing and financial management exercise as a technical challenge. Successful software development satisfies specific, well-identified customer needs. Such development cannot be created randomly or by technical experts working in isolation from the marketplace.

Motive Technology's approach involves the customer or end-user feedback from the beginning of the software development stage. Software Developers often fail to recognise the need for a customer profile which identifies the potential users of the product in both local and international markets, their functional needs, their computer skill level, their experience and their documentation requirements.

We work in a quality driven environment and follow strict auditable procedures for every software development project we undertake, which includes:

• The Specification Phase

  Design Brief - to assist both our client and our staff in understanding the needs and requirements.
  Requirements Specification - to clearly identify each individual requirement of the client.
  Functional Specification - a technical document is produced from the requirements specification which describes how each and every requirement will be implemented into the final solution.
  Future Requirements - we find it useful to discuss this at this point as it can impact on how a solution is defined.
  A Test Specification - using the functional specification the test specification is produced describing how each and every element should be tested.
  

• The Software Development Phase

  Software development commences, your Account Manager is assigned and we provide a transparent development process with access to our task tracking system to monitor the status of your overall project and individual elements.
  

• The Test Phase

  There are three main phases included as part of the Test Phase:
  Unit Testing - each unit of the software development is tested eg a new user process
  System Testing - the solution developed is tested as a system in combination with hardware and any external interfaces
  User Acceptance Testing - once the solution has passed unit and system testing we perform UAT alongside our clients to ensure the solution meets all specified requirements.
  

• Roll Out & Support

  Using staging servers to simulate the live environment we ensure all parties are happy before we proceed to live launch.
  
  We then offer fully tailored support & hosting services to ensure your development project remains as hassle free as possible

The above are Motive Technology's standard development procedures which can of course be tailored to meet the following standards: ISO, SSADM, Yourdon, GAMP, Prince2.

We work closely with our clients throughout all phases of the software development life cycle using the experience we have gained from the successful implementation of software products for large corporate organisations across international boundaries.

Motive Technology can take the pain out of software development for your organisation by providing expertise and consultancy on a selection of, or all of the development life cycle phases.