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Software Development

Over time software development has been labeled as slow, inefficient, and cumbersome. I want to change that label, one project at a time. I believe software development should be easy and fun.

Speeding up software development

Advances in technology have sped up all computers. Now your watch or phone has more computing power than million dollar systems did a few decades ago. But why does it still take so long to develop software?

Overhead

  • Large corporation overhead
  • Management overhead
  • Overhead from outdated processes
  • Communication overhead.

Little Stream Software cuts out much of this overhead. I am a small company and will stay a small company by choice. I don't want all the overhead associated with a large company. This helps me keep things simple, efficient, and easy for you.

Costs are down, Production is up

By now everyone has heard of software projects that take millions of dollars and years of time and never even produce anything that works. My answer to this is from the Open Source world of software, "Release early, and release often" and the general principles of Agile Development.

I like to break a project down into smaller milestones, typically a few weeks. Each milestone I will develop working piece of the project until the project is complete. Throughout this process, your users are starting to use the software and begin to reap the benefits from it's development.

Making it easy to use

Software is created by humans to be used by humans. So why is most software too hard to use? Is it because of the retro styled user interface? The hundreds of options that no one knows what they do?

Little Stream Software is trying to minimize this confusion. By only building what you need, you will get a software package that is so simple to use you might actually have fun using it!

If you like the sound of this new software development, contact us and I will help you out of the software development "tar pit".

Source: http://www.littlestreamsoftware.com/development

This page was created on July 21, 2007