Strategy & Technical Direction

Be clear to more than yourself

Sometimes the idea in your head is crystal clear, other times it is a little fuzzy. No matter what, being able to communicate it clearly to others is vital to your success. Whether your goal is to secure funding or start on development, we can walk you through the necessary steps to describe your idea with sufficient clarity. We don’t try to work through every detail. Rather we focus on documenting the most important ideas ensuring you're ready for your next step.

We accomplish this process, called Discovery, through a series of well planned meetings and working sessions to clearly define what your software needs to be. We work together with you to draw a box around your idea and plan out a phased approach for making it come to life. Through these sessions, we will refine and document your system in sections that can be scheduled and used as the starting point for development or as a presentation for investors.

Untangle your web

Most apps talk to other apps. Whether it's a service to send email messages or Stripe to process payments, nearly every app depends on other apps. And, those apps depend on yet more apps. These relationships can quickly become complex. If you don't design these relationships well, your system can become a tangled web that traps you and your users. A well planned architecture is key to avoiding being entangled in a net of your own making. Disentangling yourself in the future is often much more costly than making a good plan today.

We have experience building scalable, high-availability, performant systems. Whether it is on premise, in the cloud, hybrid, or serverless, we know how today's systems are moving forward into tomorrow. We use modern day software development best practices to document your system in a format that becomes the input to the development team. This documentation provides clarity during development and can often be the key to quickly resolving problems in the future. Far Edge Studio can help you architect your system so that it works well today and into the future.

Make more than a dream

Every app starts as nothing more than an idea. While formulating a plan is the first step from dream to reality, it's very easy to get stuck in an endless cycle of planning in an effort to get everything just right. If you hope to build more than a well documented concept, you have to know when it's time to execute.

Decades of experience across innumerable teams has proven that software development is inherently an iterative process and you should expect things to change. Designing a product on paper is different than actually touching, using, and interacting with it. It is important to allow for adjustments as you learn from actually using the software and getting feedback from users. Because of this, we use Agile processes intentionally designed to allow for change.

Our methodology assumes that adjustments should be made and allows the team to pivot accordingly without losing time and spending unnecessary budget. We break development into two week cycles called "sprints." At the end of each sprint we review the previous two weeks and plan for the next two. This allows us to look back at what has been done, evaluate where things need to go from that point, and plan the next two weeks accordingly. All of this ultimately saves time and money by more quickly producing a usable product.