Our process - How we work
Our process is consistent project to project, and continues to lead to successful outcomes for clients. We strive for velocity in our work, moving quickly. We aim for complete honesty within our team conversations and with clients on proposals, progress, and deliverables so we can avoid any blind spots. We achieve quality without compromising on shipping fast.
Discover
We work closely with our clients to understand their needs and goals, having comprehensive initial conversations to ensure alignment.
For web crawling projects or where otherwise necessary, our team will conduct a feasability study to ensure that before anything is signed, we have good confidence in our ability to execute on the proposed task.
Our team of software engineers and technical project managers will work together to develop a complete proposal for your review including scope, schedule, fees, and terms.
Included in this phase
- In-depth questionnaires
- Feasibility studies
- Proofs-of-concept
- Comprehensive proposal
Build
Once the proposal is signed and deposit received, the build commences immediately.
As milestones are reached, you will receive updates via email on progress and how the project is progressing related to the initial proposed schedule. If unforeseen circumstances lead to delays or warrant a conversation, you can trust that we will be in touch to ensure alignment before we proceed further.
We strive to deliver excellence in all domains of quality, scalability, reliability, and speed of implementation to ensure your organization can achieve your objectives.
Cedar Labs was never afraid of my questions and was refreshingly honest in sharing the current state of the project and what still needed to be done.
Deliver
No project is complete until it has shipped. We will review the final product with you to ensure it is complete to your satisfaction.
We will also work closely with your team to handoff any documentation, systems, or part of the solution that your team will be managing going forward. This ensures an effortless path forward as we wrap up the project and time together.
Included in this phase
- Testing. Our projects always have sufficient test coverage, which ensures confidence that the code we write works, and will continue to work, as expected.
- CI/CD. Continuous Integration & Deployment allows us to maintain fast velocity in building your solution with tests run on every code merge, and frequent production deploys so the latest changes can always be available for QA and manual testing.
- Economic Production Infrastructure. Shipping to expensive cloud infrastructure providers lock you in to ongoing monthly bills which could run you dry. We always aim to find the most economical production infrastructure solution for clients to ensure that your software systems are net beneficial.