CONSULTING AND DEVELOPMENT
Software Development
Our Software Development service is for organisations with a need for development beyond their current capacity, to reduce time to delivery or to add specialist skills or technologies. We provide:
- Full life-cycle development – from business objective to delivery
- Agile development – joining or managing Scrum teams
- Project recoveries – fresh eyes and more hands to solve project predicaments
- Conversion of, and advice on, legacy software
- Specialist technical developments
See Technologies for information on specific technical capabilities.
Software Development Management and the MOT
The challenges of delivering the right thing at the right time, adoption of changing best-practice in software development processes and in adopting new technology do not seem to go away. It is important to recognize that all software development results in the increase of IP that is either an asset or a liability. Most R&D is either earnestly creating assets, struggling to remove liabilities and, in the process, missing deadlines or speedily creating liabilities which if unchecked could be ultimately disastrous for business. New challenges in 2021 are remote working, further skills shortages and new technical paradigms. Yet many are seeing big opportunities:
- Big opportunities exist by simply delivering on current plans and potential. It may well be possible to decrease your time to delivery to achieve the speed to market you need by identifying and removing the current constraints.
- Opportunities (and major pitfalls) exist with new ways of working and collaborating now that more people are working remotely. Management advice and the right collaboration tools can help.
- New exotic technologies such as Blockchain and AI/ML are slowly, but inexorably, changing the world’s business models and our interactions. Quantum Computing has exciting immediate and medium-term applications for some types of processing including ML. We offer feasibility assessments.
- Opportunities exist with new platforms and tooling. What are your developers trying to tell you or should be telling you about? We can distinguish between changes being advocated because they are shiny and fun and those genuinely advantageous, transformative advancements.
Angleware’s Software Development consulting services and the Software Development MOT can address immediate challenges and help with strategy. We would like to provide you with measurable immediate and lasting uplifts in productivity and quality by identifying and initiating advances that are on trend with your industry and fit with your organisation’s capacity for change.
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Appraising ML and AI Propositions
In 2021 the current boom of interest in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not like the .com or crypto-currency revolutions where the technology-driven changes came from new business models and new routes to market. Within burgeoning AI, there are profound new propositions and successful disruptors. But the technical capabilities are often opaque, partially solved and depicted favourably by technologists that are highly partial. Investors need to know what can the business’s product development achieve given current and future capabilities.
We assess the health of the technical assets, the prevailing cultures and the effect of past and promised governance. Many metrics are measured and analysed over, typically, seventeen functions that are critical to AI product development. By understanding the technology and the development processes we can not only discover the feasibility, but also help predict the time of delivery and support the business in delivering on its potential.