Software development is the phase in which your business and your IT come together to create a single, cohesive solution.

Vangent's approach to software development ensures not only that your IT solution is aligned with your business and IT architecture, but also that development is done in a way that reduces time, cost, and risk to your mission. Our approach enables the construction of complete software solutions, as well as individual services, in a Service-Oriented Architecture environment.

Vangent's adaptable CMMI-compliant lifecycles deliver value to our customers by providing measurable and predictable outcomes. Our industry thought leaders and visionaries have developed a step-by-step Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) that can be adapted for any project. This detailed, iterative, and sequential set of activities helps mitigate risks and deliver large-scale, complex systems on time and within budget. We assist our customers with CMMI processes while solving their business problems.

We believe in divide and conquer; each task is subdivided into multiple-delivery phases. This method helps our customers gauge their progress and take necessary actions ahead of time. We firmly believe in diagnosing the root cause of any challenge, learning from the past, and quickly determining future strategies. We have taken this notion a step further by providing our customers with a Performance Matrix, to evaluate and identify areas of performance improvement, mitigating risks throughout the life cycle.

Vangent has expertise in the IBM Rational Unified Process, a methodology of predetermined and disciplined sequence of steps to meet requirements and maximize success rates. We also exercise our own Phase Review System methodology, which includes a well-defined and detailed set of activities for each SDLC phase with precise deliverables and milestones. Utilizing our industry experts, we have proven best practices, helping us foresee any risks and devise mitigation strategies for our customers.

Conduct Inception Phase

• Develops the vision for the solution. Works with key stakeholders and end users to solidify the solution features
• Models business processes in Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
• Models the functional (use cases) and nonfunctional requirements
• Develops the high-level solution architecture that provides the overall context for the solution
• Defines a software development plan to provide an overall project management structure for the development effort
• Develops proof of concepts for high-risk areas

Conduct Elaboration Phase

• Defines the software requirements, solution architecture, and software development plan
• Designs interfaces between major services and components
• Builds an executable architecture to assess the architecture design prior to large-scale construction, as well as to ensure interoperability

Conduct Construction Phase

• Implements solution through successive iterations based on the executable architecture
• Continuously tests the solution, using automated testing whenever possible
• Prepares the solution for the production environment

Conduct Transition Phase

• Finalizes software implementation and testing
• Deploys the solution into the production environment

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