How ScienceSoft Approaches Software Development Projects
Achieving project goals despite time and budget constraints and changing requirements is ScienceSoft's top priority. You set the goals; we drive the project to achieve them.
To deliver on our promise, we avoid passive project administration and take a proactive stance: seeking optimal solutions, adapting to changing conditions, collaborating openly with stakeholders, continuously refining processes, and anticipating risks. This page details our approach to different project aspects, showing how each contributes to overall project success.
Organizing Our Cooperation & Collaboration
Steps to start: client onboarding flow
Check details about our 5-step process to start a cooperation and learn the components of our free project proposal.
Collaboration principles, approaches, and models
Learn the fundamental principles of our collaboration and explore a spectrum of tactical and strategic collaboration forms we offer.
Project Management and Reporting
Scope estimation and management
The page outlines our 6-step scoping process and shares a fragment of our Vision & Scope document, a fragment of our feature list, a sample user journey map, examples of UX wireframes.
Cost estimation practices
The page describes key factors and principles we consider to estimate costs and describes our major cost optimization activities. It also features our sample top-down and bottom-up estimates.
Risk management principles and practices
Check the risk factors we recognize and the steps we take to control and tackle risks at each stage of software development.
Software documentation examples and priorities
Explore our documentation practices and examples of general and non-standard documents we deliver throughout the SDLC.
How we organize knowledge management
Discover our 4-step process for knowledge management and sharing and see examples of our knowledge management techniques and tools.
Change request management practices
See our process to handle change requests, from submission and assessment (feasibility, cost, priority) to implementation or rejection.
Deadline management
Explore our key practices to manage the project time and respect our agreements with clients.
Budget management
Check how we estimate the project cost and monitor the budget spending in the course of the project.
Reporting process and examples
Learn the scope of our software development reports, forecasts, and improvement recommendations and explore report samples.
Project success measurement
Visit the page to understand how we integrate success measurement into our Agile ceremonies and check examples of OKRs by categories.
Protection against vendor lock-in
See how we protect our clients against vendor dependency.
Quality and Security Management
How we manage quality
Explore the practices and policies behind our ISO 9001-certified quality management system. The page also lists software quality and project health KPIs we use and describes controls specific to each SDLC stage.
How we manage security
We are ISO 27001-certified and guarantee the safety of our clients' data. Check the data and assets we protect, the competencies we offer, and the security management activities we perform during the cooperation.
How we structure effective development teams
Learn how ScienceSoft organizes dynamic, collaborative teams to deliver high-quality software on time and within budget consistently.
How we automate development processes
Discover how ScienceSoft leverages DevOps to enable rapid, reliable software delivery with multiple daily deployments and failure rates under 5%.
How we apply TDD and BDD
Explore how ScienceSoft combines TDD, BDD, and flexible methodologies to ensure quality while adapting to project needs.
How we manage application performance
Explore ScienceSoft’s best practices for application performance planning, development, and management, including benchmarks for various application types.
Our Approach to Specific SDLC Stages
Project resource selection and assignment
The page describes how we plan an optimal team structure and select the best candidates for the required roles. We show how the process of resource assignment differs for full outsourcing and team augmentation models.
Discovery process
Discover our techniques for conducting swift and impactful discovery in software development projects, ensuring active stakeholder engagement throughout. Explore the roles involved, review sample deliverables, and consider various discovery options tailored to the unique needs of different projects.
Architecture design
Discover how we design reliable and efficient architectural solutions and explore the core architectural styles we leverage for back-end and front-end development.
UX design approach and examples
Explore our UX research methods for each SDLC stage, learn how we design UX for feature-rich apps, and check examples of our deliverables.
UI design principles and examples
Learn our practices to build unique brand identities via UI design, check what our UI kits include, and see examples of our UIs.
Scrum-based development process
See how Scrum is implemented at ScienceSoft, how we work closely with our clients, and what they can anticipate at each step of the journey.
Post-launch software warranty
We discuss software warranty terms individually for each project. Check what is usually covered and what is not covered by our warranty.