Case Study: Project for a Law Firm AltexSoft 2007-2015
Project Information Customer Information Company Name Address Website Under NDA Toronto, Ontario, Canada Under NDA Project Information Industry Environment Technologies Duration Team CMS, Multi domain presentational site for Canadian Law firm Linux Drupal 6, Git, Komodo IDE, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX, jquery, MySQL Development: 2+ months, Ongoing support: 1.5+ years 1 software engineer, 1 software architect Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 2
Challenge The client is a Canadian based advertising company. The key focus of the company is to provide Media Intelligence Solutions. This advertising company was engaged by a Law Firm that needed to develop a multi-domain presentation website. This Law Firm has unparalleled expertise in the following legal services: personal injury, immigration, commercial litigation, labour and employment law. They needed one website for each service. All the sites needed to be managed from a single administrative interface. The web site also needed to contain information about the entire organization and branches, and the FAQ section for specific areas of law. Once the idea for the Law Firm was taken on, the client looked for a web development and e-commerce savvy partner, which also understands the specifics of the target audience. That s when AltexSoft entered the picture. Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 3
Solution The Law firm website was implemented by AltexSoft in the accordance with the customer s requirements. The AltexSoft project team received the full requirements document, discussed the customer s needs and then suggested solutions/technologies. To date, AltexSoft has provided the client with the following services: Consulting User Interface Design Architecture Design and Ecommerce Solutions Development Testing and Deployment Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 4
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Project Workflow AltexSoft defined four detailed steps of the client's project and set up calls at every milestone to keep the client fully involved throughout the project. The project started with in-depth planning, involving AltexSoft s researching domain trends and the specific needs and goals of the client. Next came the design visualization phase. The website's look & feel was laid out based on the information gathered during the planning phase. Once the design mockups were approved, we moved on to the third phase. The web development phase is where the front and back end coding took place. The website s construction, based upon the selected design mock ups, was completed and the site features were implemented. The fourth phase was the Testing and Deployment phase. To create the new website, AltexSoft proposed to use the Drupal platform to guarantee high availability, cost optimization, and unlimited scalability. This allowed the admin to use the same administration system for multiple services with different access to the content. Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 6
Approach The project was mostly managed by the project lead. Customer communication was conducted via emails, Skype chats, and voice conversations. The website implementation was iterative with bi-weekly iterations (sprints). The customer received a new version every 2 weeks for review and feedback. The most risky items were implemented in the initial stages of the project. Using the iterative development process allowed the project team to receive feedback (bugs and change requests) from the customer quickly and implement most of the change requests within the scope of the project. Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 7
Benefits There were several key benefits with this project: significant reduction in time to market; scalability and availability of the solution; more efficient customer connections; more acquisitions and more deals settled, as the new website supports offline and online consumer purchasing decisions by providing potential clients with news feeds, manuals, downloads, and updates. Copyright 2007-2015 ALTEXSOFT 8
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