PioGroup Innovates Digital Breakthroughs

The discovery phase enables proper project estimation and planning. It’s the time to collect thoughts on what drives the ideas of the future project, to define your vision and mission statement, or to outline overall requirements regarding functional and technical components. This is a crucial step in translating your vision into a high-performance product. From basic analysis, through draft mock-ups and to clickable prototypes; the client can see their ideas take shape.

Our user experience (UX) designers develop the interaction between design elements, while our user interface (UI) designers build the look and feel of your app. This is a multi-step process with many review stages. What you get are blueprints and a visual direction, informing your engineers of the envisioned final product and about how interaction should feel, move, and flow. The more your product varies, the higher the chances of your UX being original. Application design involves several stages and results in clear visual directions that provide an abstraction of the final product.

The development phase involves building the actual product. Upon receiving system design documents, the work is divided in modules/units and the actual coding begins. As this phase sees the production of code, development sprints are the main focus for developers. After each stage, the delivery team may demonstrate the work accomplished to Business Analysts, as well as making any tweaks and enhancements that may be required.

The purpose of the Testing Phase is to guarantee that the system successfully built and tested in the Development Phase meets all requirements and design parameters. At the end of the Testing Phase, the development team will have completed a working, fully-tested information system that meets all the client’s business and technical requirements. The approval of the Testing Phase deliverables, the completion of the Testing Phase project status review, and the approval to proceed to the next phase, all signify the end of the Test Phase.

Software applications often need to be upgraded or integrated with any new systems the customer may deploy. It is often necessary to provide additional testing for software or version upgrades. During the maintenance phase, errors or defects may be found and corrected, either from direct user feedback or through additional software testing. Monitoring software performance and fixing any new issues are included in the maintenance phase.