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:
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 2008 Team System for process automation and guidance within the software development life cycle.
MSF Process Model Overview