How to Save Your Budget for Development

Jim, our client, not really versed in the sphere IT development, but a very creative and talented teacher and methodologist, came to me a couple of weeks ago with an idea for a brilliant project: to create a new education app for his students. He shared with me several key issues, the most important of which
Automation that will streamline all scheduling matters. It creates a timetable for classes
Jim suggested
As a business consultant for Jim’s project, I helped him to pick up all the details and set the priorities. We are working on the development phase now. Within a month it will be ready for testing.
I am proud, that our developer team can help my partner to optimise the educational process. And I am sure, that this case will belong proudly to our ever growing vertical projects of developed educational apps.
In the beginning, everything was fine: we discussed the general design concept, created user journeys and scope for the main features, based on the target audience and
But at the same time, there were a lot of unanswered questions:
More and more questions followed, to which Simon could give no answer. In short, he had no idea how to make his business work, or how to run an online shop. He just came to me, thinking that a creation of an app is a solution for making money.
I had to disappoint him
The same situation is imperative for any IT project - good programmers can build whatever you like, but you should know what you want.
And great development agencies go far beyond implementing your application based on the current state of your business. Instead, they garner information, crave innovative ideas to create the solution adaptable to your business. They need to understand your product advantages, your needs, the business model and future development perspectives, including your demands, goals, and wishes.
It is wise to plan everything in advance, here are ideas of the of documents needed:
Having all this information on hand will save hours of work for the development team. The cost for any IT service is in direct relation
And you’ll save even more than 25% by getting the flexible long-term working software solution, where all the possible scenarios of your business development on the changing market are envisaged in the plan.