Implementation Approach

We recommend to our clients that in planning the implementation of the quicklive lifetime solution that the following steps are taken:

• To hold an initial review meeting to understand the business requirements for the eCommerce platform and develop a broad understanding of the functions and features required. This will provide the baseline set of requirements.
• To conduct a requirements analysis workshop to understand the next level of detail to be able to match against the standard capability of the QuickLive Lifetime platform. A gap analysis will identify whether SaaS Standard or SaaS Premium is required.
• If the business requirements match the standard platform functionality, then we can enter development immediately, starting with the page layout and design. Alternatively if new customisation is required we will enter a short discovery phase and produce a detailed functional specification.
• Once design has been agreed we will issue access to the content management system and provide training. This gives early access to the system so that content managers can begin to migrate content to run in parallel with the development.
• Access to the development environment is provided to our customers so that they can review progress and provide feedback as we go.

Delivery Approach

We have developed a unique and highly successful approach to delivering eCommerce projects on time and to budget, which has been proven time and again. We have very strong experience and expertise in executing projects that involve multi supplier / multi vendor relationships and we understand how to make technology projects in these environments work. We are experts in delivering all aspects of the project lifecycle from strategy, programme management, implementation, quality assurance, hosting and support.

Our approach encourages us to engage with all teams at the relevant stages of the project lifecycle and as part of our project kick off workshop we identify the key milestones, expectations and critical dependencies. This will facilitate all teams to have a unified view of the project priorities and help the programme management team to manage execution.

Successful Project Delivery

• We use a hybrid approach taking the best of classical Waterfall and blending with modern Agile methodologies.
• Adapted to work in a multi-sourced environment with a variety of on-shore, near-shore and off-shore resourcing models.
• Approach has been accredited by our ISO 9001 certification and is SCRUM Master certified.
• This proven delivery approach is a unique proposition from Portaltech.