Services I Offer

Discovery

Discovery is about answering as many questions up front as you can that might otherwise cause a project to explode later. It sets you up for success in the same way that clearing landmines from your field helps you farm.

Doing a discovery project is mostly done by sitting down with stakeholders and asking a whole bunch of questions over a couple of sessions.

Here’s a list of some of the things I aim to establish:

• What are the project requirements?
• What’s the goal of the project?
• What would accomplishing the goal mean for your company?
• How will we know we’re succeeding?
• What do we know and believe about the thoughts and needs of the people using the project? How do they talk about the problem they experience?
• What’s the least amount of work we could do to confirm any questions or hypotheses we might have?
• What’s the least amount of work we have to do to meet the objective?
• What software is already in use?
• Is there existing ‘off-the-shelf’ software we could use to solve the problem?
• If we’re planning to tie into them, what’s needed to access existing systems?

At the end of this process—which usually takes a week or two—I produce a document that captures all of this information and presents next steps. I aim for the document to be thorough enough that you could hand it to another developer and they could get started the very next day.

Rate: I offer this service at a fixed cost of CAD $1,500.

Retainer

If your company needs expert technical advice or leadership without having to pay for a full-time employee at senior rates, you can retain me for a period of time and call on me when you need me. I can provide honest and prudent advice, accelerate existing teams, and offer technical expertise.

In particular, companies that are working with other software development teams can strongly benefit from regular review of progress and a second opinion.

Rate: CAD $300 / hour or CAD $2,000 / day.

Reduced rates available for longer bookings.

Software Development - Bespoke / Off-the-shelf Integration

If you need software to move your business forward or manage your risk, we can work together to integrate and customize an ‘off-the-shelf’ solution. Or if there’s nothing out there that quite does what you need it to do, I can build you custom software to meet your exact need with tight integration to your existing systems.

I also am able to leverage my professional network of other software developers and can assemble a highly skilled team if your timeline or need warrants.

Rate: As each project is unique, please contact me for an estimate relevant to your project.