The process

Our Working Methodology

A way of work that is focussed on value creation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We leverage Agile and Extreme Programming principles to deliver high-quality software solutions that adapt to your evolving needs.

“In software development, “perfect” is a verb, not an adjective. There is no perfect process. There is no perfect design. There are no perfect stories. You can, however, perfect your process, your design, and your stories.” ― Kent Beck, Extreme Programming Explained

We believe software development thrives through collaboration and continuous feedback. By embracing Agile and Extreme Programming principles, we build a shared understanding and a culture of trust between teams and stakeholders. Everyone is empowered to contribute throughout the process — from ideation, architecture, and development to deployment and beyond.

Our approach invites active participation from all stakeholders, ensuring diverse perspectives shape the evolving solution. This partnership fuels rapid iteration, continuous integration, and frequent delivery — enabling us to adapt quickly and deliver real value at every step.

Discovery

Our discovery phase focuses on uncovering the real needs by collaborating closely with your team, stakeholders, and domain experts. When end users aren’t available, we rely on in-depth industry research, stakeholder workshops, and analysis of existing systems to gather insights. Together, we translate these into prioritized user stories that form a lean, actionable backlog. This foundation lets us deliver working solutions early and improve iteratively — even as user understanding evolves.

Discovery
Planning

Planning

Planning is a continuous, just-in-time activity focused on the next iteration. We use early wireframes, prototypes, and architectural sketches as lightweight tools to collaboratively visualize scope and complexity. This helps us refine priorities, manage risk, and keep the process flexible—enabling fast feedback cycles and quick adaptation as new insights emerge.

UI/UX Design

Our design philosophy embraces simplicity, accessibility, and adaptability across devices. We focus on delivering the simplest, most intuitive user interfaces that evolve through iterative design sprints and continuous feedback. Maintaining a cohesive asset library supports consistency and refactoring, ensuring the user experience stays aligned with both your business goals and evolving user needs.

UI/UX Design
Product Build

Product Build

We deliver value through iterative development, employing Extreme Programming practices such as pair programming, test-driven development, and continuous integration. Our sprint-based cadence promotes rapid delivery of working software, ensuring your evolving requirements are met with precision and quality.

  • Collaborative development teams working transparently with stakeholders.
  • Short, focused iterations that enable early and continuous feedback.
  • Automated testing and integration to maintain high code quality.
  • Flexible architecture to support integrations, automation, hosting, and AI/LLM implementations.

Quality Assurance, Feedback and Continuous Improvement

Quality is everyone’s responsibility. Our testers, developers, and clients form a tight feedback loop, validating features continuously throughout each iteration. This practice of continuous integration, paired with automated and exploratory testing, allows us to adapt quickly and improve relentlessly.

By breaking work into manageable increments and involving you early and often, we minimize risk and foster shared ownership of the software's success.

Quality Assurance
Launch

Delivery

Delivery is not a one-time event but a continuous process of releasing working software in small, frequent increments. Through automated pipelines, robust hosting, and scalable architecture, we enable rapid, reliable deployments that keep your solution evolving in response to real user feedback. This continuous delivery cycle ensures your software, integrations, or automation systems remain adaptable, high-quality, and aligned with changing needs.

Typical Timelines

Initial Consultation30 minutes
Proposal Delivery1 – 3 business days
Discovery Workshops2 – 6 hours
Prototype Development2 – 6 weeks
Solutions Architecture1 – 3 weeks
Application Development2 – 12 months*
Integration Implementation2 – 6 weeks
Automation Setup2 – 6 weeks
Hosting, DevOps & Cloud Setup3 – 8 weeks
AI & LLM Solutions3 – 6 weeks

*Timelines vary depending on project complexity and iteration cycles.

Why Choose Us

Small Teams. Big Output.
Small Teams. Big Output.

Small teams create an intimate work environment which, helps us to collaborate and work more efficiently to deliver maximum value. Even though we are a small team of people, we deliver a lot of value due to decades of experience.

Fast
Fast

We always aim to ‘have something to show’ very soon after starting on the project. Extreme Programming helps us achieve this.

Comfortable with complexity
Comfortable with complexity

Decades of development experience within a plethora of different fields, means that nothing is too complex for our senior developers to decipher.

Brutally honest advice, feedback and consultancy
Brutally honest advice, feedback and consultancy

We create a partnership with our clients, new or established, which means that we are comfortable to be honest and transparent in our exchanges.

Cross platform builders
Cross platform builders

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