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The eConsortian process is divided into four distinct phases that all play a valuable role in the success of your project:

Discovery
Design
Develop
Deploy

The goal of the Discovery phase is to establish the business rationale, define the scope of the project, identify what resources are needed, perform a risk assessment, provide completion estimates, and generate a completion plan.

In Design, we collect detailed requirements, perform a high-level analysis and design to establish a baseline architecture, and create the plan for development. The objective is to elaborate to the point that the client and all involved resources have a clear picture regarding how the project will be delivered.

Design documents should include:

screen mappings,
flow charts,
system architecture diagrams,
entity relationship diagrams,
report examples,
data flow diagrams,
data dictionaries,
Gant charts, and
Object Models.

All applicable documents should be included but vary in detail depending on the size of the project and what technology is involved.

Development delivers the solution in a series of iterations. Each iteration is a mini-project including analysis, design, coding, testing, and integration for the use cases assigned to each iteration. Each iteration concludes with system tests, a demo to the user, and getting project sponsor sign off.

During Deployment, we optimize the system performance, deliver system documentation, fix any bugs and make small system modifications as needed. Once testing is completed and approved, we deploy the system to production. We often set up terms for support and or continued enhancements if the client deems it necessary.

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