Over the past 12 years, our professional team of 150+ individuals has had the pleasure of delivering more than 1000 projects in nearly three dozen countries. Unfortunately, we have also worked with a number of clients who fell for false promises and unrealistic claims made by other so-called web development companies. In this short article, we hope to help you avoid disappointment, frustration, and lost earnings by offering guidance in the selection process. When it comes to choosing a web development company, who do you trust? How do you know who to work with? Elance, oDesk, Guru & More Thanks to the unprecedented global reach of the internet, numerous freelancing platforms have emerged in recent years. Virtually anybody can create a profile on a website like Elance, oDesk, Guru, and several others – and in turn proclaim him or herself to be an expert of any variety. While there are some freelancers online who can deliver a high quality development project, we would caution that most cannot compete with the results of an established web development company. Freelancers do not have the reputation of an established brand to maintain or protect. Freelancers will often favor rapid turnaround over client satisfaction. Attaining authentically verified credentials for a freelancer is next to impossible. In most cases, revisions, changes, and iterations will result in an additional expense. Of course, these generalizations are not true in every instance – but they certainly do present enough risk to make sourcing a credible web development company a good idea. How to Choose a Web Development Company Choosing the right web development company will vary significantly based...
Being in the web development industry, every web development agency wants to build excellent web projects. But there are times when evolving nature of the industry itself makes it very hard for us to accomplish what we aim for. But not anymore! Agile Web Development – the next big thing is here! Agile Web Development has come to the rescue for numerous of our kind and working on development projects is not the same anymore. The approach is so effective that today, more and more Web development agencies like us prefer Agile Web Development and strongly recommend it to the clients as well. Rather than referring to it as a process, it is best to explain Agile Web Development as an attitude with which any project is undertaken. The Agile approach focuses on providing value to the clients and this is done by iterative and frequent delivery of working products. Simply put, in Agile Web Development, the project is broken down into small tasks. These tasks are to be completed in short cycles of 1 to 3 weeks. Each of these cycles involves planning, analysis, designing, documentation, development and testing. The emphasis is laid more on spending more time on actions that will add value to the web project. The key in Agile Web Development process is to take away the precious time and energy from parts of the development process that are non-relevant. Such an approach not just ensures quality deliveries but also makes scope for entertaining change requests and feedbacks. The project can be completed in half the time normally taken or sometimes even quicker than that....