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What a Web Application Development Company Builds

Accounts, data and permissions: the work a website never needs

A web application is software people log into and work in, not a website they read. Here is what a web application development company actually builds, and how it differs from a site.

Product Development Agency: What Happens Before Code

A product development agency owns the decision about what to build, not only the building. What discovery has to produce, how the phases are priced, and when a plain development shop is the better hire.

SaaS Development Company: What an Engagement Covers

What a SaaS development company does: multi-tenant architecture, entitlement and billing work, onboarding, and the support model that decides running costs.

MVP Development Company: What It Builds First

An MVP is the smallest product that can produce a real answer from real users. What an MVP development company actually delivers, what belongs in the first build, how the work is priced, and what you should own at handover.

IT Staff Augmentation: What You're Actually Buying

Contract engineers, your process, your risk: what the engagement covers and what it leaves with you

Staff augmentation rents you engineers on your own process; it does not buy a delivered outcome. How it differs from outsourcing and hiring, how it is priced, and the clauses to check before you sign.

Software Development Outsourcing Guide

Models, hidden costs and the controls worth agreeing up front

Software development outsourcing means buying build capacity instead of hiring it. The three engagement models, what an hourly rate hides, and the controls that keep the code, the accounts and the schedule in your hands.

What a Software Development Company Owns After Launch

The handover inventory: what must sit in your accounts, and how to test it in an afternoon

Ownership after launch is a list of accounts, not a contract clause. Here is what a software development company should hand over - repository, cloud account, DNS, third-party services, database and runbooks - the five ways a partial handover hides, and the one-afternoon test that exposes every gap.

Before You Hire an App Development Company: What to Prepare

The five inputs that decide the quote, and the seven things a proposal must state

A quote is only as good as the inputs behind it. What to prepare before the first call, the six questions that decide how big the build really is, which inputs move the price most, and the seven things a proposal must contain before two of them can be compared at all.

Event Management Software: What to Require Before You Buy

Five jobs the software has to own end to end - and how to tell whether to subscribe or build.

Event management software has to own registration, the programme, communications, the door and the money. Ask these five questions in the demo, and use the comparison table to decide between a subscription and a custom build.