Every software implementation has a set of foundational features that don't immediately align with your strategic objectives, but are mission-critical for it's operation.
These features form up to 80% of your version 1.0.
Regardless of the market sector you operate in or how unique your strategic objectives are, the foundation of your implementation will be built from these features.
There is a large time, cost, and quality deficit resulting from the redevelopment of these features each time they need to be implemented. This deficit hurts project KPIs that matter most during early stages, time to market, cash flow, and technical debt.
Last mile development is an assemble-to-order approach for new software implementations. Each foundational module is pre-built and modeled as a fixed-cost product, awaiting your specific objectives to achieve a fully customized solution.
It's a head start that, during the critical early stages of your journey, allows for faster delivery of your custom software strategy, with enhanced quality and engineering integrity, at reduced capital cost.
A known friction point in the software development process, affecting both the development team and clients/stakeholders, is that progress isn't visible at the surface soon enough.
Billable time is spent developing features that are crucial to a system's engineering integrity but don't directly align with business objectives.
During this period, clients endure continuation of development costs while their ability to make informed decisions remains stagnant. Workflow and project management tools suggest activities are underway, but the value isn't tangible.
Our assets solve this challenge because they are immediately available to address your specific needs.
Strategy aligned features will be demo-ready within shorter time frames, enabling stakeholders to make critical decisions and adjustments sooner. Development is faster and your implementation will be production-ready sooner, relieving early time to market pressure.
Time to market sensitivity often pushes stakeholders into a position where the rate at which strategically aligned features are completed is the sole priority. The assumption being that engineering health can be addressed, and 'cleaned up', later.
Implementations get thrown together with an ice-cream sticks and super-glue approach. Throw something together that resembles alignment to strategic objectives and put it in user hands.
What happens when it's time to scale, improve, or pivot?
Market forces never relent, and new strategic objectives, and consequently software behaviors, continuously emerge. The debt to engineering health is never fully resolved.
It's a downward spiral that sees future development become increasingly effortful, resulting in delays and increased cost per iteration.
A healthy, well-architected foundation will effortlessly adapt to change. We make it the top priority.
The design, development, and testing process for our assets occurred away from the pressures and constraints of a regular deliverable deadline, allowing engineering health to flourish along with the implementation of all best-practice and protocols.
The engineering health of these foundational modules guarantees that, no matter how frequent or drastic changes to your strategic objectives are, your solution will remain adaptable, maintainable, compliant, documented, performant, scalable, secure, reliable, and user friendly.
Last mile development capitalizes on economies-of-scale. By modeling our assets as fixed-cost products, and distributing R&D hours across all client solutions that implement them.
This approach reduces capital expenditure required to implement up to 80% of your v1.0 solution to a fraction of that seen in a traditional development model.
A ripple effect of implementing a high-quality foundation is reduced effort for future developments. The associated cost for an agile team to release continuous improvements are lower and will remain that way throughout the entire lifecycle of the system.