Seamless Process

Our industry-leading delivery management capabilities help clients get high-quality solutions on time and on budget

Faster, higher-value project delivery

Coherent Solutions ensures efficient, quality delivery by applying expert resources in an accountable process. We can complement or supplement your needs across the software lifecycle: requirements, design, development, testing, ongoing maintenance, enhancements, and more.

Focus on successful practices for software development

You choose pricing options: fixed bid or time and materials

We follow project management controls for detailed status throughout the project

We align our practices to support strong relationships

All hardware, software licensing, and infrastructure is already in place

A dedicated U.S.-based delivery manager is assigned to you at no charge

Team members are dedicated to your project to be part of your team and dig deeper to learn your business

Engagement nurtures relationships

Coherent judges its ultimate value by how many clients return for future work. Coherent achieves superior results because of our industry-leading transparent delivery procedures. We create strong integrations between our teams and the client's organization. Coherent Solutions uses a proven, comprehensive approach for smart project delivery.

Vision

Select the project.

Identify Options
Prioritize
Develop Initial Vision
Consider Project Feasibility
Assess Business Case
Align Project Goals

Requirements & Architecture

Define, architect, and plan the project.

Define Business Process & Org
Gather Requirements
Define Architecture
Create Domain Model
Set Up Environment
Create Test Plan

Development

Iteratively develop a working system that meets stakeholder needs.

Elaborate Requirements
Refine Designs
Prepare Wireframes and UI prototypes
Develop Software
Test, Fix Bugs
Evolve Documentation
Internally Deploy and Demonstrate

Acceptance & Deployment

Release to production.

Final System Testing
Final Acceptance Testing
Finalize Documentation
Train End Users and Support Staff
Deploy
Beta Test as Appropriate

Maintenance & Enhancement

Operate and support to release.

Operate System
Support System
Identify Defects and Enhancements

Project Management

Initiate

Develop Project Charter
Identify Stakeholders
Obtain Funding & Support

Plan

Define Scope
Develop Project Plan
Finalize Budget

Execute/Monitor/Control

Direct and Manage Project Execution
Acquire and Manage Project Team
Manage Stakeholder Expectations

Verify and Control Scope, Cost, and Schedule
Report Status and Monitor Risk

Transparent. Collaborative. Agile

Coherent utilizes Agile software development because it emphasizes teamwork, collaboration, and tangible results. We believe this is the most effective way to organize distributed teams. We use some flavor of Agile in over 90% of our projects across a wide variety of environments because it is designed for teamwork and delivers success. The values needed in Agile are well-suited to our highly collaborative and transparent delivery approach. This is especially important since our teams take advantage of convenient time overlaps as they work with North American and European clients.

Transparent Relationships:

Visibility to show product and progress throughout the project

Accountability to conserve the resources on the project

Flexibility to adjust the business direction throughout the project

Predictability for dependable production releases

Coherent's Agile Process

The duration of sprints varies from project to project. However, we generally recommend two-week sprints: long enough to usually complete meaningful work. We further recommend combining 4-6 sprints into a release that is sent to production weighing the duration of a release against the overhead and risk of updating software in production.

Before starting each release, the project team works with the product owner to determine which work items will be included in the release. Releases often contain a mixture of feature, enhancement, fix requests, and professional service request work items. Work items are then distributed across the sprints in the release. The final sprint of a release is usually reserved for regression testing prior to release to production. Finally, we use task burn down and feature velocity metrics to gauge the health of the project.