Agile Application Development
Valerian designed and developed an extremely high quality and scalable software application integrated into existing systems and API's in record time using Agile development methodologies.
Agile Software Delivery
Agile software development emphasizes flexibility, continuous feedback, and rapid iteration. By working in smaller, incremental cycles, teams quickly respond to changes and deliver features that align more closely with user needs. This collaborative approach fosters greater transparency, improves product quality, and ultimately accelerates time to market.
DevOps through CI/CD
CI/CD brings speed and reliability to the software release process. By automating build, test, and deployment pipelines, it quickly surfaces issues, reduces integration risks, and ensures teams can ship high-quality updates more frequently. This streamlined approach strengthens collaboration, lowers costs, and boosts overall development efficiency.
UI / UX
Focusing on UI/UX ensures products are intuitive, visually appealing, and easy to use. Wireframe diagrams act as a blueprint, helping teams quickly visualize layout, navigation, and flow before diving into more detailed design and development. This early alignment streamlines decision-making, reduces rework, and ultimately leads to a better user experience.
Software Architecture
A well-planned software architecture provides the foundation for scalability, maintainability, and performance. It outlines the system's structure and design principles, helping teams make informed decisions early on, reduce technical debt, and ensure the product can evolve gracefully as requirements change.
Overview
Our client was using email and various third-party SaaS tools to orchestrate and complete a very manual workflow that was prone to error, often contained missed or incorrect data, and was generally time-intensive.
Objective
The primary goal was to create a system that rolled up all of these disparate tools into a unified and streamlined application to cut down on error rate and simplify the overall workflow.
Challenges
The tool needed to be ready for production and working end-to-end in under 9 months and required integration with complex data structures like a Data Lakehouse, different API endpoints, and existing systems of record.
Solution
We worked with the client using our collaborative Discovery and Framing process, involving a Software Architect and a UI/UX Designer. This enabled us to map out all of the different integration points with existing systems and data structures while coming up with wireframe diagrams that the client could tangibly use to walk through the various workflows. Once we had the requirements nailed down, we used an iterative and incremental Agile development process to deliver real working value on a weekly basis, regularly rolling out new features and bug fixes using an automated Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline with zero downtime. This enabled us to garner real end user feedback on a weekly basis, which we incorporated into our biweekly sprint cycle for regular updates to the system. The result was a system that was delivered ahead of schedule with total end user buy-in to move to the new tool. As a result, error rates dropped to nearly zero and time to complete workflows dropped by 70%.
