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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
If you are serious about growing and sustaining your business, a web presence is imperative.
Customers, both existing and prospective need to know about your business and its
services. Existing customers rely on your website for information updates on your
current products and services as well as new ones. Customer portals within your site
allow your customers a secure place to access information that would not be available
to the general public. If you do not currently have a registered domain name (yourcompany.com),
we can assist you in selecting a name and then register the domain for you. If you
have a domain name already, we can transfer it to our domain management system which
will allow us to make sure that your domain does not expire unexpectedly, and allow
us to make DNS (Domain Name Server) record changes to your domain as necessary.
If you have an existing website, we can host your site on our servers and make updates
and changes to it as requested. If a complete re-design is order, we can do that as
well.
While we will consult with you on any type of software development, the following
are our specializations:
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Microsoft .NET 2.0 Technologies
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Business Application Development
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Website Design
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Logo Design
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Ecommerce Sites
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Intranet Development
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Corporate Web Portal Development
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Social & Networking Communities
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Microsoft Sharepoint Development
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AJAX Programming Technology
Our approach to project management is to perform a detailed analysis
and then start iterative cycles of design, build and deploy. In pursuing this strategy
we intend to exercise all the components of the development life cycle in an early
iteration, and thus test the software and gain user acceptance on some initial functionality
as early as possible in the project. Iterative development helps reduce risk to the
project in several ways: (1) this ensures the development, testing and production
environments are completely installed; (2) we confirm all the assumptions of the core
technical design with the first iteration deployment; and (3) with
early involvement and by the user community, they see measurable results early in
the project life cycle.
Gulf South Technology Solutions will furthermore formally follow
the Microsoft Solutions Framework 4.0. Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) is a set
of software development processes, principles, and proven practices that enable developers
to achieve success in the software development life cycle (SDLC). MSF is rooted in
well-known industry best practices. Over the years, MSF has morphed to meet the changing
needs of developers. One of the new subsets of MSF which ships with Microsoft Visual
Studio Team System is MSF for Agile Software Development. This is a new innovative
process from Microsoft which is intended for a small development team consisting of
5 to 20 members. This tool seamlessly integrates development tools and project management.
Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Agile is a scenario-driven, context-based,
agile software development process for building and improving .NET and other object-oriented
applications. MSF Agile directly incorporates practices for handling quality of service
requirements such as performance and security. It is also context-based and uses a
context-driven approach to determine how to operate the project. This approach helps
create an adaptive process that overcomes the boundary conditions (such as project
size and system criticality) of most agile software development processes while achieving
the objectives set out in the vision of the project.
The direct major benefit of utilizing MSF for Agile Software Development is
that both project managers and developers alike share the same toolset reducing the
amount of information that has to be manually moved from one tool to another. With
MSF for Agile Software Development, the tooling and management processes work together
to provide a more productive user experience than the process or tooling could provide
alone. This is because both tooling and processes are built using the same meta-model.
In other words, MSF harvests proven guidance from inside and outside of Microsoft
and provides a seamless experience with Visual Studio 2005 Team System for process
automation and guidance within the software development life cycle.
How MSF and the Visual Studio 2005 Team System interact
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