An Iterative Software Delivery Methodology Exclusively from Skyway Software

“We’re very pleased with what Skyway Software has to offer today and what it has in the pipeline for the future. Onyx has been challenged with providing higher levels of customer information services with a limited amount of technical resources. Using Skyway Software to write composite business services and applications, we will now be able to more quickly respond to user and customer requests while effectively managing Onyx business functions and web services throughout the enterprise.”

 Robert Lowe
CIO, Onyx

Professional Services Overview

Customers work closely with Skyway Customer Enablement Managers (CEMs) to understand the business and IT benefits of Skyway Visual Perspectives, as well as during the transition to production-use of the workspace.  Skyway CEMs use the Skyway Collaborative Software Delivery ™ methodology to help our customers simplify their delivery of software using the Skyway Visual Perspectives.   

Skyway Collaborative Software Delivery ™

Our customers use the Skyway Collaborative Software Delivery methodology - enabled by Skyway Visual Perspectives - to simplify their software delivery approach.  This enables our customers to deliver software applications more quickly, more accurately, and more completely than ever.  Skyway Collaborative Software Delivery starts by involving end-user customers in the delivery process in ways that are natural to them and not disruptive to their schedules.  The Skyway Collaborative Software Delivery methodology allows a wide range of developers to deliver solutions in days and weeks, rather than in months or quarters, by following a simple process flow:

  • Prototyping – provide customers with the right solution the first time (as a production-ready application) in only a few hours or days using the power of enterprise web application design models and Skyway Visual Perspectives to more effectively and efficiently capture business requirements.

  • Planning – use the application structure of the validated prototype to create a project estimate and assign resources to tasks to determine project delivery cost and timelines.  This ensures that the software will be delivered with right features on time and on budget. 

  • Development – leverage the baseline application created during prototyping and planning, combined with the enterprise web application modeling benefits to deliver weekly solution increments until the final solution is ready for deployment.  Depending on the composition and location of the team, the customer may want to take advantage of the Skyway Workspace Enabled RightShoring ™ approach.  Customers report their developer productivity improves up to 10x using our award winning Skyway Visual Perspectives. 
     
  • Deployment – configure and deploy enterprise web applications simply, flexibly, and iteratively on a monthly basis throughout the lifetime of the application using visual models of each environment for seamless promotions; starting from development environments all the way to the running production environment.

Read more to learn how our customers incorporate the Skyway Collaborative Software Delivery methodology and Skyway Visual Perspectives to prototype, plan, develop, and deploy new enterprise web applications quickly and accurately, with less delivery risk at a much lower cost.

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Implementation Support

Skyway’s proven collaborative software delivery methodology combines industry best practices for development with revolutionary approaches to requirements gathering and project planning.  To ensure initial and on-going customer success, Skyway CEMs help our customers deliver their first release of their Java enterprise web application and remain engaged as coaches with our customers. 

Delivery implementation support areas:    

  • Prototyping – visually gather requirements
  • Planning – create project plan and statement of work
  • Development and Deployment – just in time training (initial team), visual application modeling, visual environment modeling, feature release iterations, delivery team collaboration, and stakeholder acceptance

Delivery Team On-Ramping:

  • Initial On-Ramping – first release, second release (optional), and third release (optional); with less involvement from Skyway in each successive release as customer delivery team becomes more proficient with the tools and processes

Secondary Services

  • Application service offerings (e.g., application design reviews)
  • Enterprise service offerings (e.g., environment upgrade review)

With the understanding of successful completion of initial rollouts to achieve your return on investment, the phases can be streamlined for a pilot environment while still laying a foundation for the evolution of the architectural environment.  As the development methodology follows industry standards, Skyway’s CEM Team can also easily incorporate the tasks into either your or your systems integrator’s methodology.

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Consulting and Training Support

Our CEM Team’s extensive expertise provides the skill sets to ensure a successful solution, whether it is the initial project, subsequent project(s), or an as needed engagement:

  • System Architects – analysis, review, research, recommendation, design, and documentation of technical components and integrations with provisioning target and source systems
  • Integration Engineers – design, development, unit test, and documentation of integrations and web components
  • Quality Assurance Engineers – test strategy, test plans, test procedures, test scripts, test execution, and documentation to ensure full solution per the requirements
  • Trainers – on-site training as well as assistance to incorporate provisioning training into your corporate training methods
  • Project Managers – plan and monitor phases’ tasks, schedules, resources, and budgets with full status reporting with a focus on meeting objectives and early risk identification and mitigation planning

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Customer Care

Skyway is committed to providing high-quality, timely customer care and technical support to our customers and partners. To support this commitment, we have established self-service features for common, simple inquiries, as well as a full-service customer care center that offers a range of support options.

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How to Contact Us

Contact Skyway by email at info@skywaysoftware.com or by phone at +1 813.288.9355.

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