Tools of the Trade
Contingency Planning
The only way to succeed is to plan for your plans to fail, and plan for that too. Then plan for those plans to fail too, and plan for that too.
RESOURCES
Our developers don’t ask us questions because there never are any. Ok, that’s an exaggeration. But we provide them with everything we think they could possibly need to minimize issues and questions. (Ya, we review this a lot too, but who cares at this point?)
UX/UI Design
Sketch, sketch again. Design. Design again. Polish. Polish again. Perfect. Perfect again (We review a lot, consider yourself warned.)
DEVELOPMENT
We do NOT review this a lot. Our developers are awesome and given such clear instructions, the code is beautiful. (At least we think it is- as we said, we don’t really review it.)
Database Design
Every database is reviewed a dozen times before it goes to developers, and is then reviewed another half dozen times. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you.)
TESTING
We test. A lot. Our testers drive us nuts and we hate them for it. But we love how they drive us to perfection. If we get one more comment “the alignment of this button is off by 1 pixel,” we cannot be held responsible for what happens next. You hear that guys and gals?!?!(Seriously, at reviewing, there’s no one better.)
Workflows
Every process is documented through workflows so every scenario is accounted for. By the time we’re done reviewing these, our brains hurt. (Is it getting old yet?)
SECURE
The zip ties we put on our servers are the best available. (Security expert: “uuuhhhh” Us: “Shoot, you’re still here?!”) Going above and beyond industry standards, our security is top notch. Did we mention we’re PCI 1 compliant? That’s scary level security. (And we review our security measure regularly, because, duh.)