Using project methodologies is a business strategy that allows companies to maximize the value of projects to the organization. At Mantra, we understand the complexity involved in delivering custom IT solutions and realize the need for properly managed software projects. Managing software projects has become essential not just to keep track of a project’s timeline, scope, and budget, but also to increase efficiency and maximize return on investment.

Based on project types, time and budget constraints, and your needs, our project teams can use one of the following proven software development methodologies for your custom web application development and mobile application development:

  • Waterfall Software Development
  • Agile Software Development
  • Extreme Programming (XP)
  • Rapid Application Development

The selected project methodology can be customized to accommodate changes based on a project’s or an organization’s requirements. The goal of each methodology is the same: to deliver a project successfully, on time, and within budget.

Project Life Cycle Phases

  • Define

    This is the first phase in the project procurement and development process when we meet with you to discuss your business objectives and needs. As part of this phase, we go through a series of brainstorming sessions that help define your business needs. We define an initial project scope and provide you with high level time and cost estimates. In this phase we discuss our feedback, proposed approach, project risks, technology recommendations, proposed team structure, and deliverables.

  • Business Analysis and Design

    In this phase, product/project managers and business analysts thoroughly analyze requirements and prepare functional specification documents. Functional specifications are then reviewed to receive their sign-off from you and other stake holders in your organization.

  • Project Planning

    After receiving approval on functional and technical specifications, the project manager works with the project team to produce a project plan with milestones, resource allocation, and a release schedule.

  • Technical Analysis and Design

    In this phase, the product/project manager and development team design high level application architecture, define units of work, flush out development tasks, generate detailed work estimates, and produce technical specification documents. QA engineers perform high level QA review and generate a test plan. At the end of this phase, any changes to the original technology requirements, approach, project risks, and initial scope definition are discussed with you.

  • Development and QA

    This is the phase where the production team starts the development process. This phase requires participation from the entire project team. The project gets developed using progressive milestones/releases and QA testing begins at the end of development for each individual milestone. At the end of each milestone, internal acceptance testing and initial reviews can also be performed. In this phase routine status checks are performed and status updates are provided to keep you informed and involved.

  • Delivery and Deployment

    At the completion of significant project milestones or at the completion of the project, project source code and finalized project documentation get packaged and delivered to you. We can deploy packaged source code on your servers and perform any other work necessary to ensure that your application is running smoothly and ready to use.