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QUALITY ASSURANCE

The term quality assurance is easily understood if we transpose it a bit. Giving a client the assurance of quality in all aspects of his project. All our team leaders, content, design, code, quality understand that it is impossible to find our defined destination without this. Quality control is an integral part of all our processes.

Quality assurance is portal of perspective for our client as we build and user after we build. On all our projects clients have access to a complete Q & A and weekly version rollouts from the development team.

“We decided that we wanted our developers to come with clear minds, not polluted by some other approach, to learn the way that we liked to develop software, and to put the kind of energy into it that we thought was key.”

Bill Gates

discover . define . design . develop . deploy

D E . V E L . O P (build)

To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; as sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower

Developing a website is a smooth linear process that is the same for any creation. Learn or discern the needs in all areas, profit, information and sensory. Be aware of all the tools and resources you have and need to contruct this dream. And this, the best part, assemble the a team with the talent and vision to accomplish the tasks. Then set them free

Define the Developing Team

Project Lead - The project lead has total responsibility for the.
Technical Lead - The tech lead is responsible for choosing the tools for the environments that will be required to meet the clients.
Content Manager - The Content Manager is responsible for all site content its timeliness, delivery and quality.
Tool Specialists - The tools specialist chooses from a huge toolkit for Flash, PHP, Flex, MySQL, JavaScript, XML, Adobe Air, MSSQL, Apache, WinServer/CSS/ etc.
No Problem - The 'No Problem' person records everything, all deadlines, communication, Whiteboards, meetings and promises..

Define the Tools

Dreamweaver - At Zip we use many tools but most roads lead back to the Adobe Creative Suite. We have been a DW shop for many years and use the full suite of products, Photoshop, Contribute, Fireworks, Flash and more.
PHP.Fusion - If the application is appropriate we will use a light open source content management system.

Define when it's Done

When the Project Lead receives client sign-off we are done.