Agile-based Processes

We strictly follow an Agile-based development methodologies for all custom Salesforce & Force.com development project taken. Agile methodology helps breaks our projects into self-contained prioritized silos. With each iteration on each silo, our team works through an entire software development cycle that includes requirement analysis, planning, design, coding, unit testing and acceptance. This improves overall status visibility, ensures fine-grained project control with continuous collaboration with stakeholders regarding milestones and working deliverables.

Some of the key highlights of our Salesforce-Agile methodology are -

• Adaptive software development, not predictive
• Working software deliverables is main measure of progress
• Focus on transparency and collaboration with of project status continous collaboration with customers
• Coherent development teams that are self organized
• Shortcomings and design flaws are recognized early and fixed continuously to reduce technical debt

Continuous Collaboration With Stakeholders

We take our customers and their associated projects very seriously. With continuous communication with regards to milestones, deadlines and deliverables we keep customers continuously engaged as a team. Even final testing for each component is considered completed only when the customer tests and accepts the deliverable provided by our team. This ensures that at each milestone the working software is fully tested and meets the requirements of the end user.
We efficiently use a variety of tools for efficient DevOps and communication between our customers, developers and project managers such as -
Jira - For requirement management & bug reporting
Slack - Communication channel between customers and project managers
Github - For managing changes and version control
CircleCi - For managing integrations & deployments from platform to platform
MavensMate & Sublime Text - Used during coding and development

Best Engineering & Coding Practices

We strive to deliver quality working & production-ready software with each iteration. By using the industries best practices in software architecture, Salesforce development and clean coding styles, combine with our Agile development methodology, we can ensure frequent delivery of quality software. We follow a number practices to ensure quality software development such as -
Test-driven Development
We craft test cases based on user or business requirements as well as performing continuous unit testing and acceptance, that ensures our developers are moving along the right way. This method helps reduce dependencies and ensures our developers produce better quality code.
Documentation & Coding Standards
Code readability & documentation is a vital component when following good DevOps practices. We ensure our Salesforce development team follows a well maintained and documented coding standard throughout. Clean and quality code reviews are manually done periodically to ensure that are coding standards never falter at any instance.
Code Refactoring & Design Frameworks
Reducing the amount of technical debt is a high priority during development. The open source community provides a number of design frameworks that implement the best design practices. Based on the user/business requirements we implement the best design patterns recommended and refactor our code wherever needed. Due to shorter iteration cycles, continuous integration, testing and deployment, we ensure that production-ready software has been developed with minimal effort and technical debt

Quality. Quality. Quality.

Quality is never an afterthought with us. We implement test automation on all stages to aid during e our incremental development with rapid releases where manual testing may become difficult.
We strive to continuously better ourselves from the we we write & document clean code, choosing the best frameworks and design patterns, crafting test cases based on user/business requirements for test automation to ensuring clear and transparent communication of milestones and deliverables between our project managers, developers, testers and clients.