In today’s highly competitive business environment, organisations of all sizes and in all sectors are under increasing pressure to develop new software to respond to increasingly complex business processes, maximise operational efficiencies, enhance overall productivity and maintain the competitive edge.
Whether type of application you are developing, you need a partner that will deliver a system that matches your expectations on time and to budget. With almost ten years’ experience in the design, development, implementation and support of complex, enterprise-level software for major organisations in the public and private sectors, Cake Solutions is your partner of choice.
When you ask us to write a system for you, we will do our best to see how it’s going to fit with your existing systems and with your future plans. We will do our best to understand your business, which will allow us to suggest better alternatives (which might occasionally be just use pen and paper!).
The architecture of the system directly determines its success. Our architect’s job is to work with you to understand the main components of the system. The architect will also explain how they see these components working together. When you and the architect agree on the core concepts of the system architecture, our architect is ready to look into the technical details with the development team.
The most important role of the architect is to act as enlightened dictator during the development process. The architect must not allow the team to drift away from the original concept. Anecdotal evidence tells us that systems that have strong conceptual clarity and focus are the easiest and most pleasurable to use.
The bulk of the development work is left to our programming team. They are the ones who will turn your and the architect’s ideas into code. Our team members are experienced programmers, who always strive to write the most elegant code. We have taken some concepts from the extreme programming methodology and often end up programming in pairs. Pair programming sessions are very intensive, but they result in truly excellent code.
Scrum, our agile project management methodology, allows us to plan the project development with you. We always keep you up to date with the project’s progress; we don’t try to hide problems when we encounter them. Yes, we too hit rough patches during the project work. The difference between us and other companies is that we will openly admit the problems and that we have the skills to solve the problems. The Cake Solutions team is made up of some of the most talented Java and Ruby developers; we have never come across a problem that we have not been able to solve!
The communication between you and our team ensures that the system we will deliver will be exactly what you expect and want. We are not fans of big-bang delivery — situation where companies work on your project in complete silence and then deliver the result on day D, usually to everyone’s unpleasant surprise! Our approach is different: we give you as much opportunity to interact with us as possible.
This interaction is not ad-hoc, though. We understand that you have your work to do, just like we have to get on with our day. However, a short daily conference call is usually enough to keep you up to date. The calls allow the technical team to ask questions about the features they are working on to ensure that they do the right thing. It also gives you the opportunity to change your mind about a particular feature.
Our work doesn’t end when we hand over the system to you. We are ready to support and update your system. We’ll invite you to enter a maintenance agreement, where you get preferential treatment when you ask us to improve your system. The preferential treatment takes form of agreed response times and reduced rates within the contracted work. However, even if you do not feel that maintenance agreement is right for you, we will never leave you without support.
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