We know how difficult it can be to hand over your project to an offshore team. Our team has an extensive experience of managing projects for overseas customers and we always aim at working together in a way that fits into the customer organisation.
This includes using tried and tested procedures to ensure everything runs smoothly and our own specially-developed project-management and record-keeping software to document every stage. You can also keep up-to-date with the latest developments by phone - the majority of our programmers and all our project managers speak English.
We intend to make your outsourcing experience as much like having a separate department of your own company as we can.
Each project at Future Processing is assigned to a carefully selected group of qualified engineers led by a project manager who is responsible for achieving the project objectives. Ideally, there also is a single point of contact acting as a project manager at the client side. Future Processing is used to this model of managing the projects as most of our clients are based abroad and smooth communication is always essential to the project success.
There are several various project development methodologies applied at Future Processing depending on project's characteristic and customer requirements. We have developed our own methodology based on Feature Driven Development. It focuses on frequent deliveries of usable and tested code to the users. Although this methodology is our preferred option in some of the projects we have used:
Project management at Future Processing is supported with software tools which facilitate communication among the team members and store documents related to the development process. The main tool is FP Dev, a web-based project management system that has been internally developed to fit our processes as closely as possible. It is used for issue tracking, provides comprehensive information on the project progress and supports planning and managing project resources.
We always make sure that the source code as well as documentation related to the projects is version controlled. Depending on the project and customer we use Subversion (SVN) or Team Foundation Server (TFS). All files, which are stored outside of the version control servers, are regularly backed-up so the risk of any data loss is minimised.
There are certain parts of the development process that are fully automated. We use so-called continuous integration so any source code change committed to the version control server triggers an automatic compilation process. It leads to automatic tests execution and in some projects creation of the software installation package. The continuous integration helps in monitoring the project progress and notifying all the relevant team members about the current project state.
Future Processing is committed to providing the best possible products and to continually improving the quality of its service and management practices. We have achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification for our Quality Management System which addresses all areas of our software operation.
