Application Development

Jicho adhere to best practices and methodologies in developing business systems that meet your needs. Our development team has years of experience in developing applications. We are able to develop complete software solutions from the ground up, or custom-code specific modules to implement into your existing software ecosystem. By working with you we are able to define and deploy bespoke software solutions.

Accelerate business process transformation, streamline people process and technology and get them all working to seamlessly serve the customer and your operations.

With our ICT enabled business transformation you now have the business agility to easily automate and enhance as your operations require and your customer’s expectations grow.

Software Product Lifecycle Management

Project management

Project management is key issue to successful project or products. A good project management can reduce overall project development life cycle.

Development process

It is important to choose the appropriate development lifecycle process to the project at hand because all other activities are derived from the process. For most modern software development projects, some kind of spiral-based methodology is used over a waterfall process.

Requirements

Gathering and agreeing on requirements is fundamental to a successful project. This does not necessarily imply that all requirements need to be fixed before any architecture, design, and coding are done, but it is important for the development team to understand what needs to be built.

Architecture

Choosing the appropriate architecture for your application is key. Many times we are asked to review a project in trouble and we have found that the development team did not apply well-known industry architecture best practices. They are valuable because they provide useful knowledge of what does not work, and why.

Design

Even with a good architecture it is still possible to have a bad design. Many applications are either over-designed or under-designed.

Construction of the code

Construction of the code is a fraction of the total project effort, but it is often the most visible. Other work equally important includes requirements, architecture, analysis, design, and test.

Code reviews

It is important to review other people's work. Experience has shown that problems are eliminated earlier this way and reviews are as effective as or even more effective than testing.

Testing

Testing is not an after-thought or cutback when the schedule gets tight. It is an integral part of the application software development that needs to be planned. It is also important that testing is done proactively; meaning that test cases are planned before coding starts and test cases are developed while the application is being designed and coded.

Performance testing

Testing is usually the last resort to catch application defects. It is labor intensive and usually only catches coding defects. Architecture and design defects may be missed.

Configuration management

Configuration management involves knowing the state of all artifacts that make up your system or project, managing the state of those artifacts, and releasing distinct versions of a system.

Quality and defects management

It is important to establish quality priorities and release criteria for the project so that a plan is constructed to help the team achieve quality software. As the project is coded and tested, the defect arrival and fix rate can help measure the maturity of the code.

Deployment

Deployment is the final stage of releasing an application for users.

Data migration

Most applications are not brand new, but are enhancements or rewrites of existing applications. Data migration from the existing data sources is usually a major project by itself.

Measuring success

You can measure your development process against an industry standard.