Environmental concerns impact millions of U.S. citizens, including homeowners and prospective homeowners, real estate investors and developers and state and local municipalities.
It often takes time and extensive research to find an answer to the most basic question: “is my land, my home, my business, my school or my prospective building site within proximity of any known environmental factors?”
US Embassies is an app giving you the information about where the Us embassies are located world wide. You can use this application to access the information when you are traveling. All the embassies information is stored on your device that way if you don't have the data connection the information about an embassy is available to you. This app also gives you various travel alerts issued by Department of state for the last six months. This helps in making you an informed decision on which countries to avoid while travelling.
This application gives you the list of UK embassies all over the world. Imgagine you needing access to a UK embassy in case of any difficulty and not having access to any Yellow pages or any directory, but not any more. The data is available to you any time you need it. The app also gives you travel alerts which are issued by the UK government warning citizens to avoid various countries. Please make sure to check any travel alerts before you travel to any countries.
Here is a shortlist of what we can provide. We are open to almost any project, however. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
Software Development
Web development using J2EE,Groovy, Grails,JQuery,GWT,JSF,JQuery
Alfresco,
EMC Documentum,
iPhone,Android development
Technology Advice
Evaluate software suitability for your project/company
Recommend open-source solutions for your business
Review code from other providers or internal teams
Workforce Augmentation & Training
Finding experienced and reliable mobile development talent takes time and usually falls within a skill-set outside of most companies competencies. 5P teams have helped clients work through immediate app developer resource needs. Our highly skilled mobile applications developers can assist our clients’ in-house developers with designing, developing and launching projects. We’ve been retained for short-term quick projects/sprints as well as in longer term application development support functions.
Process
Our Agile Process
We will create an application for you, that reflects the essence of the service you want to provide to your customers*. With your help, we will collect your needs. We will present you an initial web design or analyze the one you already have, allowing you to expose your unique value to your customers.
* Given the timeframe and system constraints.
We use an agile process in which you are a vital piece bringing your continuous feedback. We deliver you increased value, visibility and adaptability earlier in the project.
At the heart of our process is continuous feedback both ways. To make easier your review of changes anytime, anywhere, we use a set of web tools and automated deploy scripts so you can see any changes as soon as we have them. This will happen, usually, every day. This is the way we give you feedback.
When you review these changes, you will have new ideas and new changes that you will post back to us. This last part is how you give us feedback and how the application evolves. Together, we build a balance to prioritize the business value of your system.
Our process is different from what you could have experience before. From the first release, you will have access to working software that will allow you to visualize the project focus, progress and your ideas implemented. Our QA and Graphic design teams work closely with our development team, testing all the features so you can feel the continuous advance of the project. This allows us to deliver business value in every step for you.
We continuously plan our releases prioritizing with you, considering the most valuable features that you want to show in your application. Because of this, we easily adapt to changing requirements throughout the process: we embrace change.
Our process uses some similar practices as Scrum: an iterative, incremental, time-boxed agile methodology for project management.
Project Structure
As a first step we meet with the stakeholders (customers) and with the Product Owner (PO), that represents the customers' interests. Together we define user stories that describe the application in general. Granular tasks (also called work items) are derived from user stories. Along with the PO we prioritize those tasks and put them in a backlog that could be defined as a prioritized list of tasks. The scope of the Project can be changed. Planned but unimplemented features can be replaced with other stories of the same size in any release.
We plan a time boxed release (named Sprint) and define what user stories (features) are going to be released for that Sprint as showed in the next graphic.
The Product Owner is responsible for communicating the vision of the product to the development team. He or she must also represent the customer's interests through requirements and prioritization. Stakeholders and PO must be responsible for both making decisions and providing information in a timely manner. Because the Product Owner has the most authority, it's also the role with the most responsibility.
The PO has to:
Articulate the product vision to the team.
Contribute defining the goals at the beginning of every sprint.
Tell the story behind each user story so that the development team understands what is required. So the PO must understand the end user requirements.
Define or help define the user story acceptance criteria so the team knows when they are done.
Be able to prioritize the stories and be able to negotiate/collaborate on priorities with the team. Negotiate priorities occurs when after taking the top priorities off the backlog; there may be some remaining capacity that the next highest priority story won't fit in to. So in those cases, a lower priority feature could be picked.
Must agree not to change his instructions before the end of the Sprint.
Must be available at all inspect and adapt points to answer questions and help guide the team in real cases.
As showed in our process diagram, at the end of the Sprint, once we have worked with our Graphic design and QA teams, the application will be accessible to you throughout a web site, so you can review the features that have been implemented and give us your feedback.
