Portal Development in Kansas City

First, we conduct a no-cost discovery meeting with you to better understand what’s driving the need for your new portal, your high-level requirements, and the number of key stakeholders that will be impacted and need to interviewed. We do this to gain a better understanding of the type and size of effort required to achieve your goals and to develop a proposal for the first phase of our process — the Trabon Design Studio.

Design is the most important phase of a successful software project. Unfortunately, many organizations tend to undervalue this phase, opting instead for a strategy that feels more like “code and hope.”  Not Trabon.

Trabon’s Design Studio provides a rapid, effective approach to determine the core design elements for your portal. The process ensures that both you and our development team have a clear vision for what the portal will and won’t do, how long it will take to develop, and how much it will cost.

Deliverables may include:

• Screen Mockups are created so that end users can interact with the new design visually.
• Functional Requirements define the rules for what the system will (and sometimes will not) do.
• Process Model defines who/what triggers each process and how the organization responds to achieve the desired outcome.
• Data Model defines how the application uses data.
• Technical Architecture diagram lays out the proposed architecture for the new application.
• Cost Estimate is a detailed estimate of the time effort and fees required to construct the application.

The first step in the development phase, technical design, takes place to ensure development is efficient and that the resulting portal is maintainable, scalable, and extensible. Development translates the specifications created during design into code. We also test the system to verify the code works according to those specifications. At completion, acceptance testing is conducted by the client as a final check before deployment.

Deliverables can include:

• Technical design and specifications
• Use cases for end user testing
• Source code and documentation
• End user training documentation

During deployment the portal is moved to production servers and released for use. Training of users, if needed, is conducted. The system then moves into a support and maintenance mode.