Adaptive Delivery Development Methodology
Majitek's proven system development and integration methodology
Many large IT projects fail to deliver to expectation. The reasons are typically related to insufficient experience in software product development leading to poor decision making at the development, management, and strategic planning levels of a team.
Traditional software development methodologies are not designed to:
- Minimise (compartmentalise) bad decision making by enforcing high testing standards throughout development.
- Continuously monitor technical decisions across a project and quickly recognise and mitigate the effects of poor decisions.
- Rectify problems quickly by utilising tight feedback loops between the software creators and business owners.
The Majitek Adaptive Delivery Methodology is tailored to tackle the inefficiencies of decision making in large corporate IT enterprises. Based on Agile software development it embraces commonsense activities that improve decision making:
- Writing operational use cases with subject matter experts and the implementation team dramatically reduces the mismatch between requirements and outcomes.
- Implementing a feature-driven development approach allows business owners to insert and modify detailed requirements after development has started, achieving turnaround times of weeks, rather than months, for feedback and review.
- Continuous feature re-prioritisation enables project managers to tightly coordinate development efforts on a volatile delivery schedule.
Adaptive delivery processes that improve efficiency, accelerate turnaround, and improve quality include:
- Using tools that enable continuous automated test and deployment environments, for rapid identification of poor coding decisions when they happen – not at the end of the project.
- Using release-grade test coverage (unit, system, and integration) as the completion criteria for development work, so that risks are mitigated early and the QA process is reduced to an auditing/review function.
- Writing less code and using a simpler design process as a high measure of overall quality – resulting in greater flexibility to address business change and lower ongoing maintenance costs.
The Majitek Adaptive Delivery Methodology is a process and project framework that enables informed, timely and efficient decision-making by small effective teams with minimum communication overhead. It allows changes throughout the development process, ensuring that what is delivered is exactly what the customer expects.
Majitek applies this methodology within its internal product development teams and on all its client projects. We have historically achieved project results in half the time, with half the people, with a higher level of quality than equivalent project teams using traditional techniques.