Software Engineering and Project Management
The Foundation of Managed Success

At JUMP Technology Services®, we subscribe to the basic concepts of software engineering principles. Regardless of technology evolution, four key attributes of well-engineered software systems exist:

  • The software should be maintainable
  • The software should be reliable
  • The software should be efficient
  • The software should provide an appropriate user interface

Upon analysis, the evolution of technology paradigms (most recently from client server to three tier, n-tier, to SOA) deal primarily with scope. Evolving from local computer applications to distributed applications sharing data across an enterprise and now the globe, the paradigms are closely coupled with new business paradigms. While software vendors continually provide new modeling concepts and tools (to make the current evolution easier to digest en masse), the underlying software engineering principles remain the same.

Agile Projects

JUMP Technology Services utilizes strategic design methodologies. Because of our knowledge and dedication to software engineering principles we can utilize modeling techniques from ORM (Object Role Modeling), UML (Unified Modeling Language) and RUP (Rational Unified Process) to provide the best fit for the stage of the project’s lifecycle and the customer organization. Our goal is staged delivery (RUP’s incremental delivery) of software modules that meet project requirements without sacrificing system extensibility. While a waterfall process may not be the best fit due to inevitable change in technology and the organization, at the other end of the spectrum, highly iterative cycles could miss key foundational attributes impeding extensibility and hiding costs or shifting them downstream. JUMP Technology Services® believes that good project managers and software engineers can find the appropriate balance as the project moves from concept to implementation.

Our project management professionals work with our software engineering team to produce quality software on time and on budget. When risks arise, our team knows how to escalate, report, and resolve issues that prevent success. Understanding that change is inevitable, we work to manage change rather than prevent it. Consistent communication keeps our clients informed through the entire process (utilizing a dedicated project website, issue tracking system and forum). Our methodology has proven results…successful projects with no unhappy surprises.

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