Overview

The stSoftware application life cycle consists of weekly incremental releases with stake holder planning and demostrations. The release cycle is two weeks from the planning phase to feature release, features are broken down into small enough tasks to be able to fit into the two week release cycle. This project management methodology is known as Agile/Scrum

Agile project management is broken up into three main phases:-

1. Planning
2. Development Sprints
3. Release Sprints

stSoftware cloud systems have three main environments

Summary

The stSoftware incremental upgrade process consists of a continuous integration system and three separate staged environments.

Our Java coding standards can be found here which are adopted by all our developers. 

We follow Agile development processes, which includes writing automated unit tests for business logic. This allows systems to evolve with confidence.

References:-

• Original stSoftware coding standards document.

stSoftware can use the Waterfall project methodology which locks down business requirements and scope at the start of the project and enables set time frames with guarantees. We prefer to use the Agile project methodology as it is increasingly recognised as providing better outcomes with shorter project times and lower costs to client as overheads are reduced.

With Agile projects the client and the vendor teams work closely together on smaller deliverables. This collaborative environment reduces