making ideas work! has developed a proven strategy for helping clients deliver systems that meet their organizational goals. Our Quad Methodology is a four-stage process is similar to Rational and Microsoft’s recommended best practices, adjusted for practical implementation for medium-sized projects.

Using our Quad Methodology, making ideas work! is capable of delivering a system that meets client goals.

• discover:
• collect requirements
• define functionality
• define scope
• determine high-level requirements
• write functional specification

• design:
• discuss visual design, brand reinforcement goals
• create four mockups demonstrating various approaches
• work with leading design candidate to determine final design
• revise functional spec as necessary
• create presentation layer HTML and images.

• develop:
• determine platform and database technologies
• create development staging and testing environment
• determine coding conventions, code architecture
• create database schema
• generate data code layer
• write functionality and merge with presentation layer

• deploy:
• purchase any necessary software licenses
• install software onto production server
• update server with any necessary service packs
• deploy data, code, and necessary files to production server
• test

we also incorporate an iterative method; e.g. functional specs may be revised during the development process, and components may be tested on a production server prior to development.