Achieving through iterative and phased methodology.
ThoughtBridge's approach for delivering projects is to leverage our iterative and phased methodology, Discover-Design-Implement (DDI). The DDI methodology utilizes a single, common foundation that easily accommodates multiple project iteration cycles. It is composed of three integrated, flexible components, each adaptable to specific client needs and situations and is designed to achieve results rapidly and thoroughly. This series of repeatable processes and components ensures that all impacts on both end users and the overall organization will be considered during the various phases of the project.
Discover Phase: Validation of Environment and Requirements
A primary goal of the Discover Phase is to ensure that the business requirements, architecture, and project plans are properly identified and the risks sufficiently mitigated to predictably determine the cost and schedule necessary to complete the project. The Discover Phase is intended to uncover, confirm and define additional details around the project and to ensure the project is properly scoped out. This process, known as a ‘Discovery Workshop’, is facilitated through a combination of client interviews, research efforts and requirements gathering.
The following is an overview of the activities to be performed during the Discovery Workshop:
- Review the current solution environment
- Gather and review high level business and technical requirements
- Identify workflow processes
- Identify integration point
- Indentify security, taxonomy and information architecture
- Identify branding and user interface requirements
- Identify risks that may impact project
- Validate and prioritize project scope
The result of the Discovery Workshop is a Statement of Work that will provide a scope of the project and a budgetary estimate necessary to support the agreed upon project goals and objectives. The duration of the Discovery Phase is typically three to four calendar weeks.
Design Phase: Design and Architecture of Solution
During this phase, ThoughtBridge will map the requirments and processes identified during the Discovery Workshop to a clear plan that addresses those requirments. Once the user, business and system requirments have been finalized, a detailed project plan is developed that defines the Scope of Work to be completed during the remainder of the engagement. During this phase the team will focus on the following activities:
- Develop the detailed Architectural approach
- Design Information Architecture
- Technical Architecture Review
- Security/Authentication Review
- Database Architecture
- Detailed Implementation Plan
Implement Phase: Implement, Configure and Deploy
During this phase the team will:
- Deploy the core solution along with supporting customized components
- Perform user acceptance testing
- Stabilize the deployment
- Transition the project to operations and support
- Obtain final customer approval of the project
Upon completion of the implementation, the team conducts a project review and the client is asked to complete a customer satisfaction survey. Stabilization activities may continue during this phase as the project components are transferred from a test environment to a production environment. Training and documentation tasks are also completed during this phase as required.