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Atimi has created a series of steps to ensure quality of product and clarity of workflow. Atimi’s proven Package Services provide a client with the tools they need to create product awareness and elevate growth while supplying the road map needed to make your application a success.
Atimi provides a complete development solution, with an emphasis on formal process, accountability, and reliability. Timely, professional delivery of technology solutions is our business, and we pride ourselves on meeting scheduled development goals. Our first step to meeting these goals is providing a comprehensive discovery phase - a series of discussions where the goals for the overall project are defined, by collecting project goals from key stakeholders. In a mobile application, one of the main parts of collecting goals is to also frame how those goals can be achieved in the restrictive format of the end device.
This elicitation of project goals is typically done in a round table discussion where the content owners express what the key drivers are, and the business process owners outline to Atimi the budget that is willing to be expended to meet the goals as brought forth by the team.
The end of the discovery phase yields a set of documents, which have been taken through the process of brainstorming, drafts, to final approval. That set of document deliverables is detailed in the discovery phase plan. A concluding document is written which foots all project goals to the end features, procedures (such as Apple engagement), and timelines to be sure all goals for the project are being addressed, and where applicable can also be measured.
The deliverable documents may include:
A POC can be used for testing, for executive/investor review; some use it for customer feedback in double-blind tests. Whatever your reason, a POC is a safe, low-cost way to test market and investor viability into the Mac market. Atimi has helped many start-ups bring to life their conceptual ideas into early prototypes used to showcase to investors. Nothing educates and creates awareness like the real thing. Imagine your ideas in full color, operating on a Mac or Windows machine. Fixed engagement, 20-30 days.
This fixed scope engagement is perfect for data gathering, budget justification and product planning. Whether you are a software producer or a hardware manufacturer, investigating if your current Windows-based product can be ported to the Apple OS X platform is a necessary first step. If you don't have an Apple compatible product and you're thinking of releasing one, this is an economic service for scoping out the project requirements.
Atimi has conducted hundreds of such investigations. Use our highly specialized and experienced staff to accurately define your first step in the fastest growing PC market segment. We will provide an expert diagnosis of your product's successful migration into the Apple OS X world. We will advise you if your product should be ported or if you should create one from scratch. If you have an older Mac software product, we can advise you on how much of your existing code can be ported to OS X.
A team of experienced Apple OSX developers reviews your current product. They install and use your PC-based product, and then take a good long look at the code. How much can be ported to the new application? How much has to be rewritten?
A team of Quality Assurance technicians evaluates the amount of testing required to ensure your software will be an optimized, market-ready Apple product. Testing is streamlined on the Mac as there are only a few configurations--You only need to test your software on Mac hardware with Mac OS X.
An Atimi project manager who has worked on dozens of such projects provides real-world estimate of the project. The PM and developers produce a detailed task list, with assumptions and risks for each task. The PM refers to our archive of project plans to determine the amount of time each task will require. Everything goes into the planning budget. Successful projects start with an accurate project timeline so you meet your deadlines and you have satisfied partners and customers.
A Project Estimation Report summarizes the evaluation findings. A description of the product, the requirements, and general scope of the project is documented. This is followed by the estimation and findings of the Atimi technical team which outline the technical requirements, skill sets, time frame, tools required and other project details. This report will give a fair estimation of the project in terms of time, costs, skills and expected output.
This project is conducted on-site at Atimi's lab. We have the latest Apple hardware and software for thorough and complete testing. All Project Estimation Reports are done by Atimi senior development leads that have a minimum of 10 years of Mac OS X experience.
The output from this mini-project is used in Step Two — Proof-of-Concept Package.