Our Methodology - SPEED

The Strategize phase of SPEED answers the questions, “What are we building?” and, “Why?” This initial phase is centered around developing and continually evolving your business and technology vision, supported by a clear view of the current and future market landscape. Idea validation and consensus building at this stage are fundamental keys for success. And the true value is realized through translation of the vision into a clear, achievable roadmap that leads seamlessly into solution design.

The Prototype phase of SPEED answers the question, “How will we deliver a solution?” Creating a solution design that is consistent with the business vision and meets the needs of the end user is critical to overall success. This phase kicks off with data collection and quickly shifts to analysis, design and development of the solution prototype. Existing processes and technology are reviewed against end user needs and available data to generate a conceptual future-state workflow and user-centric interface. These workflows and interfaces are converted to a prototype that is provided to the user early in the process for feedback and recommendations.

The Evolve phase of SPEED answers the question, “Is it right?” The focus of this stage is gathering user feedback and enhancing the product / solution. This phase manages a loop of direct user feedback, enhanced design and enhanced prototypes, utilizing the feedback and prototypes as a sophisticated requirements validation process while building confidence with the end user. Early validation through prototyping ensures that gaps are identified and resolved early in the development cycle. They key to moving from the Evolve phase into Execute phase is agreeing and locking down key priorities and phased delivery to ensure the prototype can quickly transition to a production release.

The Execute phase of SPEED answers the questions, “What and when will we release?” This stage provides the final, hardened and tested release version of the prototypes that were developed and enhanced in the Prototype and Evolve phases. Key focus areas of this phase center on final preparation for the enhanced and hardened application going live, including developing and testing the final product for launch in accordance with the stringent quality assurance processes and standards of financial institutions and large enterprises. Creation of operating models, marketing plans and release/support plans are also important in the Execute phase.

The Deploy phase of SPEED answers the question, “How do we maintain and grow the end solution?” The primary delivery in this phase is the solution, released and running in a live production environment. However, that is not the end of the work in the Deploy stage. Providing the tools and knowledge transfer to manage and support the production platform is critical. Managing the feedback loop of information gathered throughout the SPEED process back into the Strategize phase of the next wave ensures future releases continue to deliver on the latest user and market needs.