Because business is continually evolving and you are facing new IT challenges and requirements, it is essential that you fill functional gaps with custom-built integrated and advanced software applications. These applications will enhance your competitiveness, enable you to achieve your business goals, mitigate losses, and keep maintenance costs in check.

CTE can partner with you to roll out new application development or to enhance existing applications with the right cost resources, as you need them. CTE, a midsize CMMi Level 5 company, has deep process maturity to ensure that your custom application development stays on budget and on schedule.

The Custom Application Development process at CTE normally includes:
• Complete and detailed analyses of your business needs
• Preparation of design specifications
• Development
• Testing and validation
• Maintenance and support

Depending on your need, CTE adopts one of the following methodologies:
• Rapid Application Development
• Agile Development
• Scrum

Rapid Application Development (RAD) at CTE

These solutions are based on the Right-Hand/Left-Hand Framework and are built on the idea that keeping pace with technology has become non-negotiable for businesses. Organizations are realizing that in order to attract and retain customers, improve customer service, streamline supply chains, and improve profitability, it is imperative to keep upgrading to the latest technologies.

CTE's Custom Solutions:
• Attract new market opportunities and acquire new customers
• Improve existing products by integrating them with newer technologies
• Improve supply chain and revenue models and increase profitability
• Improve customer service and satisfaction
• Upgrade internal communication between functions.

Agile Development

CTE uses agile development, developing software in shorter iterations/spirals, to minimize the risk that a custom application will be obsolete or outdated before it is completed. Each part of the application development process is divided into iterations that include planning, development, and testing. We ensure that at the end of each iteration there are no bugs and ensure a minimum-risk situation.

The agile development approach includes:
• Informal team structure and culture
• Kick-off meetings
• Peer reviews, iterative development
• Daily builds and smoke tests, frequent releases of working increments of software
• Reflection workshops, strong and continuous QA
• Lightweight modeling and documentation

Scrum
At CTE, we understand that your requirements might change during the development process. Requirement changes cannot be addressed effectively in a traditional carved-in-stone plan methodology. Depending on your requirements, CTE may utilize scrum methodology and ensure proper verbal communication and discipline within the team.

CTE’s scrum methodology approach includes:
• Effective Communication between scrum master and the team
• Continuous integration and testing, both offshore and onsite
• Pilot with Sprint0 and establish process
• Typical sprint duration - 30 days
• Daily stand up meetings
• Track by backlog

Cambridge Collaborative Delivery ™

CTE’s unique CCD™ methodology combines intense workshops, solution visualization, and spiral-based Rapid Application Development (RAD) to achieve demonstrable value in short business cycles.

The benefits of our Collaborative Delivery model include:

	Mitigation of risk that is higher when clear business objectives, executive support, and user involvement are lacking and when user/IT/executive goals are misaligned. We reduce this risk—from the very outset—by securing support from the client's senior leadership and with deep buy-in from the end users.
	Measurable business case, which allows stakeholders to determine the ROI of the effort.
	On-budget and on-time delivery in 18- to 21-week spirals, which mitigate business and technology risks by identifying and resolving most problems during early phases of the development cycle.
	Optimal timeline for realizing business value.
	Building trust and long-lasting relationships with clients by fostering collaboration and joint ownership of the design and delivery processes.