Carnegie Technology Group

Process

Business-Centered, Customer-Centered
It's simple. Business requirements drive technology decisions. The technical implementation details are simply not relevant until, at a minimum, high-level business requirements are developed. Carnegie team members will determine the best approach for each customer solution and continually work to improve it.

Carnegie Solutions Framework
The Carnegie Technology Group Solutions Framework captures best practices adapted from Agile, RAD, RUP, and other methodologies and maintains a clear relationship between business objectives and technology implementations. A brief overview is presented below.

Envisioning Phase

Unify the project team and project vision.
Create a high-level view of the project's goals and constraints.

Planning Phase

Determine what is to be built
Gather business requirements
Develop functional specifications
Determine milestones, develop project schedule, and set expectations

Design Phase

Develop conceptual design - understand system users, usability and business contexts. Map out the high-level flows and end-points of system processing.
Develop logical design - define system components and the boundaries through which they communicate.
Develop physical design - determine implementation details by combining conceptual and logical designs with functional, system and real-world constraints. Balance the needs of maintenance, cost, and stability.

Develop Phase

Using frequent iterative releases, deliver a core set of features with incremental functionality added until the team achieves the full vision for the product.
Maintain agility to revalidate or update product vision as business requirements change.
Promote frequent communication with the customer to get early and frequent feedback.
Actively involve the Test/QA team in the development process to ensure that quality is built into the product, instead of being tested into the product.

Stabilize Phase

Fine-tune the software implementation to correct defects, meet unforeseen challenges, and to enhance the overall user experience.

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