Custom Application Development

Our Development Methodology

ProductPath is an Agile shop. We have to be, because we specialize in time-sensitive web design and software projects.

We're a fully integrated operation, meaning that all of our services are provided by a single, tightly knit team of web usability experts, project managers, software development managers, engineers, designers, technical writers and trainers. With locations in Canada and China, we are able to create the ideal mix of near-shore, offshore for each customer and each project.

We're an Agile Development Company
What does being Agile mean? It means we'll work very closely with you in every stage of your solution development process. We feel that when creating a web site or developing custom software, customers should communicate directly with the people doing the work, rather than sales personnel, in aim of minimizing communication errors and maximizing productivity. We believe in frequent testing and deployment, so that our customers are able to give us constant feedback throughout the entire development process. By intimately involving customers in the creative and development process, the end result is a better solution that is delivered on time and meets your requirements - at a substantially lower cost.

Strategy Melded with Technology
Our process involves more than simply writing code. We begin by carefully analyzing your business model in order to develop an innate understanding of your requirements and how we can help you improve via technology. Our proprietary ProductScope requirements gathering and prioritization software automate the time-intensive but mission critical requirements definition processes. This leads to highly exact and validated requirements and, ultimately, helps your company substantially reduce costs and utilize what we deliver. We realize that nobody understands a client's business model better than the client themselves and so we ensure that our clients always have a direct hand in the creation of their website or software application.

Lower Risk, Earlier Return-on-Investment
Our agile development process entails that we will build the most critical components of your website and solution first, deploying the system at frequent milestones. This means that after only a short period of time, you will have a solution that serves its core purpose. The "nice-to-haves" will be added in an iterative fashion over time. The solution can be implemented into your business process sooner, allowing your business to begin realizing a return on its investment well before the entire solution is completed.

Customer Involvement and our ProductScope Platform
Our emphasis on customer involvement throughout the development process ensures that your solution meets your needs. That is why we have developed proprietary customer requirements gathering, validation and prioritization software platform which we call ProductScope. The most critical stage of any project is the definition of requirements, get those wrong and the result is re-work and blown deadlines, driving your costs. But getting to defined requirements is typically a time consuming process. In a bid to reduce this cost, most development services firms simply do cursory work. Our ProductScope software platform lets us capture, validate and prioritize your requirements in a time-efficient and effective process. We ask you to compare our requirements process to any other, you'll see why we stand out.

Quality Assurance
ProductPath offers professional grade software with stylish user interfaces and elegant back-ends that will increase the longevity of your investment. At ProductPath, the code that is essence of your software will always be meticulously architected, designed, and implemented with the utmost in reliability and extensibility. We rigorously test the software we develop to ensure a minimal presence of bugs from day one of your software project

Be RIGHT out of the gate: Our services, expertise and ProductScope platform extend from early idea generation through to end-user research, rapid prototyping, usability testing, software engineering, testing, and QA. We are expert at asking the right questions of a product idea, of its intended users, and of technology to ensure that the final result is successful. Schedule to succeed: We set small frequent deliverables, which makes it easier for the project leaders to track progress and detect slippage early. And, we're diligent about tracking progress on a daily basis over a project extranet and on a weekly basis in status meetings. Quality check. We make quality the responsibility of the entire development team and not just the QA team. We aim to have a working build as early as possible in the project and keeping the application in a working state as we add features.